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    29 days ago

    “A job” is the modern equivalent of “finding enough berries to stay alive for a few more days” or “going through the crops on your hands and knees picking weeds and killing pests”.

    It’s insane to think that a job is supposed to be fun. A job is what you have to do to survive.

    Some extremely lucky people will actually find something that they love doing, are good at, and that people are actually willing to pay them money to do. If you’re among the richest billion people on the planet, you may be lucky enough to have a job that’s boring, unfulfilling, but not dangerous and doesn’t involve back breaking labour.

    For most people on the planet, a job is whatever you have to do to get a roof over your head and enough to eat for the next meal. Of course it’s going to suck, and it’s probably going to be a lot more than 40 hours a week. But, the alternative is death.

    If you are one of those richest billion people and you have a job you hate, but you could do a job that’s only unfulfilling and boring, by all means, switch.

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        29 days ago

        If we were allowed to do just what is necessary for survival we would spend way, way less time on it than we do working now

        Sure, bud.

        Picking weeds from a crop just big enough to support a family does not take 40 hours a week 52 weeks a year

        Sure, bud. I guess you’ve never met a farmer? It’s famous as one of those 9-5 jobs with weekends off, isn’t it?

        We live in a form of indentured servitude

        Sure, bud. That famous form of indentured servitude where you get nights and weekends off, and are free to change bosses at any time.

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            29 days ago

            I guess one has spent too much time in church or movies or something, believing that there’s some utopia where berries gratefully fall off bushes into our waiting hands, if only the durn gubmint, or frickin capitalists would get out of our way.

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                29 days ago

                My dude, I live on a hobby farm. Complete with livestock. I have giant blackberry bushes.

                That’s great my dude. My dude, what fraction of your yearly calories come from this hobby farm, my dude? My dude, are you able to actually meet your nutritional needs with this hobby? My dude, is this farm just a hobby? If it meets all your needs, why do you work at all, my dude?

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                  28 days ago

                  I agree with this mf but he’s so fucking annoying about it that I actually want him to trip on his shoelaces and shut the fuck up