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...people ask these questions and tend to assume that all answers are supposed to be about some personal passion for making the world a better place. The assump

by Mz 9y ago

...people ask these questions and tend to assume that all answers are supposed to be about some personal passion for making the world a better place. The assumption is that no one is going to honestly answer "Are you kidding? If I didn't have to work for a living, I would just play video games all fucking day." http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/10/ancient-wisdom-tells-us-idle-hands-are.html http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/10/ancient-wisd...

BjoernKW 9y ago
For most of the HN audience I suppose playing video games all day, every day would get boring pretty quickly. Even that prostitutes and cocaine part might be not be so enticing anymore if you have those every day. Additionally, keeping up a healthy cocaine habit isn't, well, very healthy in the long run. Then again, living a long and healthy life might not exactly be your top priority in that case ... Idle hands being the devil's workshop is a decidedly Puritan notion. I wouldn't be too surprised if the proverb actually came from Puritan origin. It can be interpreted in a way that work has value in itself even if it's entirely unproductive. I don't think it's a healthy approach to either life or business. I also don't think that humans who wouldn't have to work anymore to make a living would instinctively default to doing nothing and simply wasting their life on unproductive activities. Self-actualisation and creating something that has some sort of value is an important, perhaps even essential need once everything else is provided for.
- hluska 9y ago
  Even that prostitutes and cocaine part might be not be so enticing anymore if you have those every day. Additionally, keeping up a healthy cocaine habit isn't, well, very healthy in the long run. Then again, living a long and healthy life might not exactly be your top priority in that case ... This is one of the funnier paragraphs that I have ever read. You have a great voice for satire!
  - owebmaster 9y ago
    > This is one of the funnier paragraphs that I have ever read. You have a great voice for satire! You are very good with satires too! Or perhaps this is a clash of generations? your quote doesn't look like satire to me.
- hluska 9y ago
  Even that prostitutes and cocaine part might be not be so enticing anymore if you have those every day. Additionally, keeping up a healthy cocaine habit isn't, well, very healthy in the long run. Then again, living a long and healthy life might not exactly be your top priority in that case ... This is one of the funnier paragraphs that I have ever read. You have a great voice for satire!
atroyn 9y ago
I'd love for people to answer this honestly, and in that vein. I just can't ever picture myself playing that many video games.

by Mz 9y ago

BjoernKW 9y ago

For most of the HN audience I suppose playing video games all day, every day would get boring pretty quickly. Even that prostitutes and cocaine part might be not be so enticing anymore if you have those every day. Additionally, keeping up a healthy cocaine habit isn't, well, very healthy in the long run. Then again, living a long and healthy life might not exactly be your top priority in that case ... Idle hands being the devil's workshop is a decidedly Puritan notion. I wouldn't be too surprised if the proverb actually came from Puritan origin. It can be interpreted in a way that work has value in itself even if it's entirely unproductive. I don't think it's a healthy approach to either life or business. I also don't think that humans who wouldn't have to work anymore to make a living would instinctively default to doing nothing and simply wasting their life on unproductive activities. Self-actualisation and creating something that has some sort of value is an important, perhaps even essential need once everything else is provided for.

hluska 9y ago
Even that prostitutes and cocaine part might be not be so enticing anymore if you have those every day. Additionally, keeping up a healthy cocaine habit isn't, well, very healthy in the long run. Then again, living a long and healthy life might not exactly be your top priority in that case ... This is one of the funnier paragraphs that I have ever read. You have a great voice for satire!
- owebmaster 9y ago
  > This is one of the funnier paragraphs that I have ever read. You have a great voice for satire! You are very good with satires too! Or perhaps this is a clash of generations? your quote doesn't look like satire to me.
hluska 9y ago
Even that prostitutes and cocaine part might be not be so enticing anymore if you have those every day. Additionally, keeping up a healthy cocaine habit isn't, well, very healthy in the long run. Then again, living a long and healthy life might not exactly be your top priority in that case ... This is one of the funnier paragraphs that I have ever read. You have a great voice for satire!

atroyn 9y ago

I'd love for people to answer this honestly, and in that vein. I just can't ever picture myself playing that many video games.