• Revan343@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      I like to work. I enjoy building things; if we lived in a post-scarcity Star Trek world, I would still be in construction.

      The problem I have is that we don’t live in that world, and most companies don’t want to pay me enough to live comfortably, so when I’m applying for jobs, I have to pass over most of them

  • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    People have been complaining about ‘kids these days’ since society began.

    Socrates thought books would be society’s downfall because the new generation would rely on them instead of memorising things, making their brains lazy. He also said:

    The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

    Every single generation in recorded history has complained the next is lazy and dooming society. It’s always been narrow-minded pearl-clutching.

    • Mongostein@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I don’t think the idea is that no one should work, but that no one should need to work.

      I picture a scenario where if you can’t work or you’re ok just getting by by lazing around all day that’s fine, but you only get enough for a home and some food. If you want more you gotta do something. This isn’t me though.

      Then if you’re a person who loves to work you can make all the money and get shit done and buy all the fancy stuff and live your life the way the want. That’s not me either.

      I’m somewhere in the middle. It’s not that I don’t want to work. I just want to work on something fulfilling, and having a boss sucks. I want to be able to work when I want and have time to get things done in my personal life. My days off are always working on some kind of personal project anyway so I’m not lazy, I just want my life to be mine.

      It’s about the freedom to choose. With all the advances in automation we should be able to have all these options available but the rich just hoard the money.