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How often do you get existential dread? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by toddalon@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm pushing half a century in an industry that is not kind to old guys. I try to fend it off but every now and then it hits me. I'm pretty sure this is not unique to my life experience, or it wouldn't have a term :-)

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[–] chauncey@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

In my early twenties it was nearly constant. It's subsided greatly since then. At a certain point I think I just accepted that "there is no meaning, so it's ok".

So once you get there, and you start understanding capitalism, then that takes over as the most all consuming topic.