I took "unhealthy state" to mean a toxic work culture, with long hours and low pay. If you work as a low level actor/writer, you have to audition all the time and are about to get replaced by AI.

That’s because there are many many more people who want to be actors/writers than there is demand for those jobs.

This is the market telling you to pick a different career.

I think you are debating whereas OP was just sharing a memory.

I'm not debating, I'm explaining the inaccuracies of their perspective.

OP was just giving their opinions and telling their memories ("when i was younger")

People can remember incorrectly or wrongly, and things can change. You don't have to explain the inaccuracies all the time. Sometimes its okay to tell a story or a moment from memory and be wrong or incorrect.

It would be like correcting your grandfather who told stories of walking up hill both ways in 4ft of snow. "But grampa, this area has _never_ received 4ft of snow." That's not the point, per se.

Or at least my $0.02.

They were telling the story in a retrospective manner as a reflection of today's issues. They said the video games and movie industries were "sickly" today. I addressed how that is wrong; not their memories.

You're either creating some non-existent argument out of bad faith, or have no idea what you're saying.

I said „unhealthy“- not sickly. You can be 100% fit and have an unhealthy lifestyle at the same time. The constant race to market dominance can easily divert you from producing creativ output but as a creative you always have to strike a balance. Working as an engineer at google or facebook, paypal, airbnb just seems incredibly boring to me. This is probably my core point.

> I said „unhealthy“- not sickly.

Sickly (being in ill-health) and unhealthy are essentially synonymous in this case. But sure, replace one for the other in your head, if you prefer. There's no point being pedantic about it.

> You can be 100% fit and have an unhealthy lifestyle at the same time.

Then it's not an unhealthy lifestyle, it's just one you find unappealing.

> The constant race to market dominance can easily divert you from producing creativ output but as a creative you always have to strike a balance.

And yet, I gave you two very obvious counter-examples of how the exact opposite is happening, specifically for American culture/life.

> Working as an engineer at google or facebook, paypal, airbnb just seems incredibly boring to me. This is probably my core point.

Cool, no one is asking or begging of you to move to the US. I don't live there nor care. However, the claims you made around that are still fundamentally inaccurate/warped.

To simplify the flaw in your logic, it is like if I said "I don't want to live in Germany because it has a larger percentage of Nazis than ever in history" and you responded "well no, that's obviously not true" and my response was then "Nazis are boring, that's my core point".

I think you are being unhealthily combative in this whole exchange. Not every person wants to have every utterance fact checked and checked for logic errors.

OP is trying to make a subjective point with his terminology. The words may be synonymous but words also carry subtext and other associations. They don't want counter examples. They don't want anyone to ask or beg them to move to the US. Who cares if the claims they made were inaccurate or warped? They are not teaching a class or writing a book but speaking off the cuff about memories. Logic is not the most important thing in the world, sometimes compassion and just listening to a story being told without pointing out every oddity is just how society works.

Not interested in disussing the inaccuracies of your perception of my supposedly inaccurate and entirely subjective perspective. Just want to point out i said „nazis are boring“ right a way.