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though if you stopped working hard, foreigners would come and take your job, and then take your kitchen and land. (they come regardless, no worries, but they'd come faster.)
on top of that, what's the point of life without adventure and progress? we make great progress through your suffering, so heads up, the 40 hour work week is worth something. also, capitalism is a natural structure based on people's greed, and you can't abolish the capitalists because they will simply be replaced by other capitalists.
signed, your friendly capitalist :)
no but seriously ... it drained my soul somewhat to write this. i wish so fucking much for a 20 hour work week or less.
I honestly don't mind working a lot, as long as it benefits EVERYBODY and not just a handful of hoarders. I love improving things for others.
I just don’t want my healthcare tied to a fucking job. Then I could actually work whatever, whenever, and how long I want to.
I love teaching for this reason. At least when it’s not administrative bullshit, “fill out the forms for this miraculous new program,” but the actual interacting with and helping young people grow. If I get my third job I’ll be doing that 7 am - 8 pm basically 7 days a week, but I’m okay with that. Sitting next to a kid and getting them to understand how imaginary numbers work is the thing that makes me not want to kill myself. Explaining to a high schooler that yes, dinosaurs were real… saying “hey this time of year it’s really easy to see Orion,” or saying “yes I absolutely LOVE Ender’s Game! Let’s talk about foreshadowing in that book!”
It’s bullshit work that kills the soul. I’ll teach until I’m hoarse and be happy to be alive.
Thank you for sharing that. I think that passionate teachers are the cornerstone of a good society and healthy community!
That made me think about the Finnish model. I think they are doing this somewhat right. A masters degree is a minimal requirement for teaching at all levels except very early education.
If anybody from Finland reading this could share their thoughts on this that would be amazing. In not from Finland myself.
not to contradict you, just mentioning it:
well i do mind working a lot because it drains my body and i get really really bad sensations after an exhausting work day, including the feeling that everything is shit and such. idk, it's probably only me, but there is people who struggle with work, independent on what kind of work it is. it's literally the exhaustion itself that does it.
though it's good if you made that decision for yourself. doing community service definitely does help the world, especially your local community :)
Yeah that makes sense of course. You are definitely not the only one. Sounds like you know your limits!
In the end, and in my personal belief, we're all one big community and we have a chance to uplift each other (I know, I know, utopian fantasy much?). It should not be a competition, but a synergy. In my book, it's the effort that counts, not the hours.
yeah i'm programming a computer game rn and intend to make it open source once i have some substantial amount :)
actually, i think competitiveness is artificially instilled on us based on a thinking in races, i.e. "getting ahead". not like skin-color, just beating the other guy by being better than him and such. (i.e. like a race-car competition).
Agreed. Keeping the masses artificially competing with each other over the crumbs the upper 10% leaves us just distracts people from who they're really in competition with.
No offense but who is stopping you from working only 20 hours?
starvation
Also homelessness.
I bet you could live on less if you wanted to.
But you would have to make some tradeoffs to make it work with 20 hours of work, live downgrading your living situation or moving to a cheaper place to live.
Now I am not saying that's good, I am just saying you can make 20 hours of work work if you really want to, but really people just like to bitch.
Agreed! Worked 12 years full time. Last 3 years lived in a small forest off grid, working 2 to 3 days a week. In the winter months I rent a room in a cohousing.
It's a different kind of life. It takes adjusting. The "luxeries" like no running water, electricity being very limited, etc are fine. I honestly prefer the simplicity. I prefer that making a coffee takes 40 minutes, from starting the fire, to boiling water. The ritual is part of the experience.
Most difficult is that friends still do the city hard work, hard (and expensive) play, constant complaining thing, that I can't relate to or keep up with.
Not sure if I'll do it forever. But the next couple of years for sure!