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Sounds like you have never had a job outside the office. Go dig ditches for a construction company for six months and you'll run back to your 9-5 "slavery".
by claydavisss 8y ago
Sounds like you have never had a job outside the office. Go dig ditches for a construction company for six months and you'll run back to your 9-5 "slavery".
- woogiewonka 8y agoThere is no mention of 9-5 in the parent comment. What made you get so aggressive at the statement above?
- ataturk 8y agoThat's such an awful fallacy--"Somewhere, someone else is worse off than you." Yeah, everyone in China, India, Indonesia, North Korea, most of Africa, most of South America, Mexico. Digging ditches, that is hilarious--as if people manually dig ditches in developed countries anymore! Most road crews are like 10 dudes standing around doing nothing. Road improvement projects are a form of welfare.
- derrikcurran 8y agoA part of me misses blue collar work. I'm a software engineer now and love my job but I'm often mentally exhausted, have less time to think, and find it much harder to stay in good physical condition. Besides, in a lot of meaningful ways, it isn't so different. I work for a great company but that doesn't change the fact that I'm giving up a certain amount of practical free will and allowing others to profit off of my work. It's not slavery but it doesn't always feel so great. I've never understood the mentality you're exhibiting. Someone else has it worse so nobody should complain? That's nonsense. Everyone should strive for better. Whether they're at the bottom or the top. That has always been the way of humanity.