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> Leisure is actually quite important. Grinding away constantly can lead to burnout, poor health, frayed relationships, etc. It's a shame that leisure time its
by ntsplnkv2 9y ago
> Leisure is actually quite important. Grinding away constantly can lead to burnout, poor health, frayed relationships, etc.
It's a shame that leisure time itself has to be framed around work.
As we move forward we need to move past this concept of "work" and "productivity" as the main drivers of what it means to be human.
- Banthum 9y agoWork doesn't define humanity, but the fruits of work are what enable humans to exist. Also, work is the only means by which we do things that can benefit others. It's all very good to be concerned with your own experience, but if you want to be helpful to a partner, a family, or a community, you have to work. This is why work has such meaning. It makes benefits that are not purely selfish. Benefiting other people strikes me as more meaningful than simply attending to one's self, trying to make the days until death more pleasant. This selfishness is what has always troubled me about the popular hedonistic conception of meaning that's taken hold in recent decades.