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No one ever says "I wished I worked more" from their deathbed. Prioritizing money and status ahead of family and friends is a personal decision. Business and
by jlj 9y ago
No one ever says "I wished I worked more" from their deathbed.
Prioritizing money and status ahead of family and friends is a personal decision. Business and personal success can coexist in capitalism but many people choose the former over the latter and assume they are mutually exclusive. I made that choice out of college and it took me until my mid 30's to realize it. It's really hard to re-learn how to go the other way, and I imagine it's even harder for someone who operates that way their whole adult life into retirement.
- rxhernandez 9y ago> No one ever says "I wished I worked more" from their deathbed. I did, well at least on what could have been and what I thought was my death bed. I was very ill for months and when I started to feel like I wasn't ever going to get better I tried my best to scramble to produce publishable research.
- TheCoelacanth 9y agoMaybe not in those words, but I would bet there are a lot of people who wish that they had more financial security throughout their life. It's much harder to maintain relationships without financial security. One of the leading causes of divorce is extended periods of unemployment. There is also some evidence that men who work longer hours tend to have happier marriages. That would suggest that it might at least sometimes be a rational decision to put in extra hours even if you are optimizing for relationship quality rather than money or status.
- gaius 9y agoNo one ever says "I wished I worked more" from their deathbed. No-one wishes they'd spent more time at some pointless job sure, but I'll wager there are many who wish they'd pursued some opportunity with greater effort.
- bartedinburgh 9y agoExcept those who die in poverty after a miserable retirement because they haven't prioritized financial wellbeing in their lives.