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"After that threshold is met, most people have a lot of other things that matter more to them." This is brainwashing. You will spend almost all of your life wo
by logicslave 6y ago
"After that threshold is met, most people have a lot of other things that matter more to them."
This is brainwashing. You will spend almost all of your life working, get all that you can. Its a business transaction, dont live like a slave
- pphysch 6y agoIt's not just a "business" transaction. That is incredibly naive. There are implicit health, family costs as well. Chronic stress is real and dangerous. It is possible to work without putting your real life on "pause" (we age every moment whether we are present with that truth or not).
- routerl 6y agoBusiness transactions aren't solely financial. I don't think the comment you replied to is suggesting "focus only on career" but rather "maximize dollars earned per hours worked". The "brainwashing" is people who don't pursue or request raises because "I'm already comfortable".
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoSomeone values something different than you, and that's brainwashing? Baloney. (Maslow's Hierarchy, while not perhaps perfect, does seem to have some reasonable insight into how humans work. It seems more accurate than your comment.)
- routerl 6y agoI agree but I think it's more subtle. Most of us look at billionaires and think "why would anybody want so much more money than they need?", identify this as the vice of "greed", and implicitly stear ourselves away from that vice. However, the quantitative disparity here makes these phenomena qualitatively different. As you said, employment is a business transaction and should be treated as such, and this attitude only becomes a vice when it dominates someone's life (as in the case of the billionaire).