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and then expect good life? shouldn't it like "you reap what you sow"?

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• onion2k 10y ago
  If the expectation is that you should be able to live a good life if you work hard then something is very wrong. A huge number of people work incredibly hard, yet still don't get to live a good life. A teacher (or nurse, developer, construction worker, etc) who puts in long hours working a stressful job and still doesn't earn enough to invest in a home, take a vacation, or raise a family. Where is the incentive for people to work hard if that's the case? You can't tell people that "you reap what you sow" if they're seeing other people sowing a huge amount and actually reaping very little. To anyone who might reply to suggest this means the reward for not working should be even lower, read The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek first. He made a very good case that there's a necessity for decent welfare in modern societies because without it poor people will eventually rise up in a bloody revolution. It's happened many times in the past. Lowering welfare is, by logical extension, an argument in favour of murdering the wealthy.
• charlesdm 10y ago
  My personal situation: I do work, but probably not more than a few hours a day, and yet make significantly more than most of my peers. I don't work hard at all (maybe once in a while), yet work smart. By most metrics my life is pretty good given I live a relatively free life without significant stress and plenty of money (not FU money, but I do alright). It also shows that you don't need to work hard to actually achieve something, and can still live well.