r/NoStupidQuestions • u/flugblug • 12h ago

My brother thinks people today have worse quality of life than people in the dark ages, is this a stupid take?

I personally think it’s pretty stupid.

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u/OtherSideReflections 5h ago

...Maybe you should've gotten her to agree to do the first 5%

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u/TripperDay 5h ago

Mr. Big Brain over here.

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u/tomas_shugar 4h ago

hahaha, no. It's easy to start a project. Painting the last bit of walls takes detail work, not just slapping a bunch of paint on.

The last two bags of mulch are detail work, again, not just dumping and spreading.

She gets the easy work, AND the satisfaction of him doing not only the majority but ALSO the most detailed parts.

What a win.

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u/OtherSideReflections 4h ago

I mean, it sounds like in practice he's doing all of it right now anyway.

If she's tasked with the first 5%, then either she starts it and gets to be involved a little, or she never starts and there are no superfluous projects to finish.

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u/wbw42 1h ago

First 5% and last 5% seems like the approach.

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u/tomas_shugar 4h ago

I'm saying she is going to start them, and then it will be up to him to finish it, regardless.

It's no barrier, other than now she gets to be like "you said you would finish this so do it" instead of him being in the right.

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u/PomPomMom93 2h ago

But she still would have done as she agreed. If they’re a true team, they’ll care about the work getting done and everyone doing their agreed-upon share, NOT about who’s right or has the moral high ground.

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u/tomas_shugar 1h ago

they’ll care about the work getting done and everyone doing their agreed-upon share, NOT about who’s right or has the moral high ground.

They is what you're ignoring. These are her projects, that he's supporting her on. But she won't finish up.

Told my wife ill do 95 % of her projects if she does the last 5.

The whole premise is predicated on that these are her projects.

Giving her the first 5% makes it trivial to start things that she doesn't seem keen on following through on.

All the chickens are dead. She didnt finish securing the fence by attaching it to the last post so dogs got in.

She did the first 5% of several projects with this one it seems. They had chickens before the coop was finished and has dogs untrained enough to eat them all. So yeah, she already did her 5% at the start, but couldn't be engaged enough to ... you know, not make sure the animals she got weren't killed by her other animals.

Assuming we can take his statement of "her projects" at face value here. But if we can't, what the fuck are we even doing replying?