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I would rather be dead than work only 2 hours a day...

crankylinuxuser 8y ago
Uhm... What? I'd be happy working (making profit for someone else, and getting a tiny portion of it) 0 hours a day. I've projects, ideas, experiments, and entertainment I would much rather be doing than 40h/week . I want live and do, not toil for some indifferent capitalist.
- rukittenme 8y ago
  You've confused employment with work.
  - effingwewt 8y ago
    the article has the word 'workism' in the title. i believe it's extremely disingenuous to be a pedant here.
  - thatoneuser 8y ago
    Youve confused pedantry with meaningful conversation ;)
  - loco5niner 8y ago
    This comment explains why no one agrees with your previous comment. You are using the term "work" differently than EVERYONE else here.
    - rukittenme 8y ago
      Who cares about agreement? I'd rather be right. You can't redefine words when its convenient. You're just appropriating the spirit of the word to make a point that's irrelevant to the word itself. If you read the article, the authors make no distinction between work and employment. If you read the comment I originally replied to, that person made no distinction between work and employment. When "crankylinuxuser" replied to me, he assumed a definition of the word I disagreed with and used that definition to respond to an argument I never made. You don't get to define work as "toiling for some indifferent capitalist" and then treat me like I'm the one pulling the rug out from under you.
Jill_the_Pill 8y ago
Well, you don't spend the rest of your time drooling, you know. You volunteer, get politically active, take care of others, cook and garden, get exercise and sunshine, chat with friends and family, do creative projects, clean, do small repairs, read, write, learn things. I stayed home with my kids for 10 years and was never bored.
- dmos62 8y ago
  I'll summarize that, if I may: there can be a life outside work.
- amelius 8y ago
  Some of those things sound more like work than actual work :)
- thatoneuser 8y ago
  That's part of the propaganda. "Idk what I'd do without my job". It's not hard to come up with productive activities that aren't sitting in an office. I mean it's not trivial, but neither is spending 40 years of your life scraping for one more rung on the ladder. Don't get me wrong im usually bored when I'm out of work. But that's more because when I'm not working I also don't have money to do other meaningful things.
  - imtringued 8y ago
    No time for interesting projects while working... No money for interesting projects while not working... Well, at least learning languages is both cheap and not very time consuming ( although more time is always better ). But in terms of years it's still a long time.
- zeroonetwothree 8y ago
  For some (many?) people working is more enjoyable than the things you listed. There's nothing wrong with that. IME not working and working in the range of 20, 40, and 60 hour weeks, around 35-40 is the sweet spot for me.

Uhm... What? I'd be happy working (making profit for someone else, and getting a tiny portion of it) 0 hours a day. I've projects, ideas, experiments, and entertainment I would much rather be doing than 40h/week . I want live and do, not toil for some indifferent capitalist.

rukittenme 8y ago
You've confused employment with work.
- effingwewt 8y ago
  the article has the word 'workism' in the title. i believe it's extremely disingenuous to be a pedant here.
- thatoneuser 8y ago
  Youve confused pedantry with meaningful conversation ;)
- loco5niner 8y ago
  This comment explains why no one agrees with your previous comment. You are using the term "work" differently than EVERYONE else here.
  - rukittenme 8y ago
    Who cares about agreement? I'd rather be right. You can't redefine words when its convenient. You're just appropriating the spirit of the word to make a point that's irrelevant to the word itself. If you read the article, the authors make no distinction between work and employment. If you read the comment I originally replied to, that person made no distinction between work and employment. When "crankylinuxuser" replied to me, he assumed a definition of the word I disagreed with and used that definition to respond to an argument I never made. You don't get to define work as "toiling for some indifferent capitalist" and then treat me like I'm the one pulling the rug out from under you.

Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

Well, you don't spend the rest of your time drooling, you know. You volunteer, get politically active, take care of others, cook and garden, get exercise and sunshine, chat with friends and family, do creative projects, clean, do small repairs, read, write, learn things. I stayed home with my kids for 10 years and was never bored.

dmos62 8y ago
I'll summarize that, if I may: there can be a life outside work.
amelius 8y ago
Some of those things sound more like work than actual work :)
thatoneuser 8y ago
That's part of the propaganda. "Idk what I'd do without my job". It's not hard to come up with productive activities that aren't sitting in an office. I mean it's not trivial, but neither is spending 40 years of your life scraping for one more rung on the ladder. Don't get me wrong im usually bored when I'm out of work. But that's more because when I'm not working I also don't have money to do other meaningful things.
- imtringued 8y ago
  No time for interesting projects while working... No money for interesting projects while not working... Well, at least learning languages is both cheap and not very time consuming ( although more time is always better ). But in terms of years it's still a long time.
zeroonetwothree 8y ago
For some (many?) people working is more enjoyable than the things you listed. There's nothing wrong with that. IME not working and working in the range of 20, 40, and 60 hour weeks, around 35-40 is the sweet spot for me.