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There Are No Social Obligations

Name: There Are No Social Obligations
Uploaded: 2024-10-03T21:00:04+00:00
Duration: 24 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this brief monologue, the speaker challenges the notion of social obligations, reframing them as social consequences. Using the example of joining a…

3 Oct 2024 · 0 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker challenges the notion of social obligations, reframing them as social consequences. Using the example of joining a fantasy football league, they explain that allocating 2–3 hours a week to the league would reduce time available for other activities, leading to fewer shared experiences with friends and potentially weakening those relationships. The speaker asks whether they (or the listener) care about such outcomes, noting that friendships may not endure five years into the future, thereby questioning the weight we place on short‑term social expectations.

There is no such thing as social obligations. There are only social consequences. If the boys want me to be in the fantasy football league, and I know that's going to take me like 2 or 3 hours a week, and that's 2 or 3 hours that I don't have, then me not doing fantasy football is going to have consequences. And that consequence is going to be— I'll probably be less boys with those boys because we have less shared context. The question is, do I care? You may not even be friends with anybody in this room in 5 years.