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While I have done my share of this kind of work when I was young, this is still horrible. I remember Richard Linklater's book Generation X had a couple of rules
by nickbauman 9y ago
While I have done my share of this kind of work when I was young, this is still horrible. I remember Richard Linklater's book Generation X had a couple of rules I still live by.
1. Don't eat yourself
2. Don't eat other people
If we could live by these two rules, there would be no Ghost Economy.
- jotm 9y agoCould you explain that better? I'm not into cannibalism, not a Survivor Type either https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_Type https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_Type Or is it sexual?
- SimbaOnSteroids 9y agoI believe its metaphorical cannibalism.
- the-dude 9y agoI read it as burning out is eating yourself. Working too much regardless of the income, regardless of burnout or not is eating yourself.
- quickthrower2 9y agoI definitely don't do those things.
- Terr_ 9y agoOr in the words of Terry Pratchett's Granny Weatherwax, sin comes from treating people as things, including yourself.
- exolymph 9y agoKant's categorical imperative. You must treat people as ends in themselves, not means to ends.
- ldarcyftw 9y agoDouglas Coupland book, no?
- nickbauman 9y agoYou're right, and now I cannot edit it!