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0 points9dev1y ago0 comments

I don’t know if that’s sustainable. We’re all stuck with this work-thing being one third of our life for the foreseeable time, so spending 33% of like, everything I’ll ever experience on something I don’t give a fuck about seems like both a lot of dull time and a bad decision overall.

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immibis1y ago· 2 in thread

Well, your choices are that or death - no matter whether you give it bare minimum effort or a lot of effort.

Aeolun1y ago

You you actually feel fulfilled giving anything minimum effort?

Like, I’m not going to work overtime for free or anything, but the time I do work gets my best effort.

mattgreenrocks1y ago

Cynicism is a cope for not doing the work. Minimum effort is exhausting for the long term.

throw_pm231y ago· 1 in thread

"We're all stuck with this..."

I think you are rationalizing your choices by thinking everything does the same. It is not true, some are not stuck anywhere, some choose to live a simpler life that needs less money, fewer compromises, etc. etc. the world is a big place.

9devOP1y ago

Sure. I was specifically talking to people browsing hacker news, which have a high probability of working a job in the capitalist economy. Of course there are other ways of life, but the predominant part of humanity does not choose those. So I still think it’s appropriate to talk about ”all of us“ in this case.

anal_reactor1y ago

Work from home exists for a reason

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