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Alas, the employee would have to act ultimately.

• hendzen 9y ago
  People respond to incentives. If you can get paid 250K+ to sit around and hang out on reddit all day, why wouldn't you do that instead of busting your ass?
  • sjg007 9y ago
    Because some people want to work, to be useful? Redditing is like shouting into the void, totally useless (hacker news is kinda similar). At the top of Maslow's hierarchy is where you find the need to do work that contributes to society. I read this NYTimes articles about a New Yorker who was paid $5m to vacate his apartment for new development. He was the last hold out. It turns out when he was young he was in medical school but dropped out after he received a sizable inheritance. He was also quite good in school etc... His regret? I could've been a doctor! Basically he felt his life was unlived and unexamined despite the luxury of money. So if you rest and vest but spend 8hrs a day at work doing nothing... then what's the point? How long would you do it?
    • chronic8k 9y ago
      > So if you rest and vest but spend 8hrs a day at work doing nothing... then what's the point? How long would you do it? Forever. There are 7 billion people in this world. If it's not you or me, there will always be someone else.
    • lmm 9y ago
      But most contributions to society are about labour saving - if we don't think that kind of life is valuable then surely those contributions aren't really valuable either.
  • morgante 9y ago
    If I spend more than a week without getting meaningful work done, I get extremely depressed. I love the thrill of building projects and creating business value. You'd actually have to pay me more to do nothing than to do something.