New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do you overcome Weltschmerz or fatalism about our future?

Ask HN: How do you overcome Weltschmerz or fatalism about our future?
8 by preya2k | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I‘m currently having a hard time motivating myself to do anything, really. How do the people of HN overcome the sensation of Weltschmerz, which translates to the feeling that the world is hopeless and lost. While yes, I am not denying that there are positive things happening every day, they all seem vastly unremarkable and small compared to all the horror that is happening every day. Famine, murder, terrorism, climate change, radicalism, fake news it’s all just too much for me currently. How do you motivate yourself to go to work every day, (presumably) coding for some hyper capitalistic company, that somehow feeds the whole downward spiral?

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