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The last bit resonates with me. Work has to be something we need to do for about 1/3 of our lives. Work is service. Even if we get paid for it, work is what we
by jelliclesfarm 7y ago
The last bit resonates with me. Work has to be something we need to do for about 1/3 of our lives. Work is service. Even if we get paid for it, work is what we do for the betterment of collective. 1/3 of our lifetime ought to be for family and kin and our own. The remaining 1/3 for self development. To become better than who we were yesterday, last month..the year before. It’s a continuous improvement.
But I see people do nothing but work. They start at 7.00. Work all day. Outsource family time. Scrounge for a little bit of self care time. Sleep little, enjoy in chunks of time once a year. All for a price.
Most of what we work for goes to the government. Yes, taxes go for betterment of society but because no one has a say in it, it can also go towards things some of us don’t believe in. War, for example. I can’t divert my tax dollars towards space exploration rather than bloody wars.
We need a formula for life and living. A formula that gives us true and lasting freedom.
[..] When Page became CEO in 2011, he became “obsessed” with reading about why companies fail from being too big and sluggish, Stapleton said. “It’s sort of sad that a lot of the things he was afraid would happen, actually happened.”
Stapleton, who held a number of roles close to the founders, recalled Page walking around offices with a chunk of metal that he said was from his grandfather’s auto plant in Michigan. It supposedly symbolized a point in time when auto workers felt like they needed to protect themselves against management. Page showed it as an example of something he hoped would never happen to Google.
“He always said how much Google needs to be upfront and progressive in how it handles people and processes and HR,” Stapelton recalled. “He had such an optimistic view of technology and how Google could really transform how people live and free up humanity to pursue the arts.”[..]
- dwighttk 7y ago>Work has to be something we need to do for about 1/3 of our lives. >1/3 of our lifetime ought to be for family and kin and our own. >The remaining 1/3 for self development. and then the fourth 1/3 of the time you sleep
- jelliclesfarm 7y agoGood point..thirds of our waking life. 1/3 of 16 hours then..
- rabidrat 7y ago168 hours in a week; 56 hours sleeping (7 days * 8 hours/day); 112 awake hours/week; 1/3rd of 112 = 37 hours/week
- dmoy 7y ago> Most of what we work for goes to the government. Relatively few people have an effective tax rate above 50%. In the US, if you live in a high tax state like California or New York, you need to have an income (single person!) of about 2,500,000 USD/yr to have an effective tax rate above 50%. (Actually more like $2.9m in NYC) Edit: for an EU example, somewhere in Bayern, Germany it'd be about 1m ~ 1.5m EUR to have an effective tax rate above 50%.
- jelliclesfarm 7y agoWe are also taxed on goods, property, transactions, consumption, death, inheritance..even gifting.. etc. we pay a lot of taxes. Imagine you make 2.5 million/year. Why should you pay 1.25 million as taxes? Are you being taxed for being wealthy? Isn’t it punitive? What services do you receive that is worth 1.25 million? But imagine you make 60k/year. Roads, infrastructure, essential services, public schools for a family of 4 with 2 kids does make sense. A larger family benefits more as they get more than they contribute. Our tax system incentivizes larger families and redistributes wealth. It works if there is a healthy middle class. In CA the very rich is thin but they also support a larger proportion than other states. When we are looking to hit 9 billion soon, it’s probably not best to incentivize rampant population growth and large families.
- akiselev 7y ago> What services do you receive that is worth 1.25 million? A stable state that protects your property rights over the other 1.25 million.
- jelliclesfarm 7y agoLike protection money? Then the Govt is like the mafia?
- BigJono 7y agoNo? The mafia fucks your shit up if you don't pay. The government protects you from civil unrest, which is instigated by all the other people that aren't millionaires. If the mafia protected you from other people robbing you, then they'd be a legitimate business. It's called a security company.
- lagadu 7y ago> work is what we do for the betterment of collective This is going to be unpopular but I'll plow ahead regardless: no it isn't. Work is what we do to support our expensive hobbies and because we like nice things.
- jelliclesfarm 7y agoThat too but the work itself serves the general public. The cutting edge tech is all for what? It’s for everyone to have a phone in their hands..find directions..listen to music..swipe for dates etc. today a farmer in India has a smart phone. It’s democratization of tech. The world benefits. It’s a form of service where you get paid. As opposed to being a butler for the queen of England. It’s actually a beautiful thing. I hear a lot of grudges against tech workers in Bay Area from those who aren’t..I always point out that the world is better because a hand ful of people make lives better for 8 billion by making tech accessible. Of course, there will be a cost for this. A price for this. A heavy one sometimes. But the goal is for everyone to live better. Imagine we didn’t have computers 50 years ago. How far we have come...
- SaxonRobber 7y agoSmartphone apps and social media are not pushing humanity forward. They are huge productivity drain if anything and cause more problems than they solve.
- jelliclesfarm 7y agoAre you saying the world hasn’t benefited from mobile connectivity devices and humanity being more networked than ever in the history of our planet?
- bearcobra 7y agoI think it's still too early to tell, but it's certainly not that crazy to think that on net the world hasn't benefited from humanity being more networked than ever in history.
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