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What's the point of accomplishing stuff without any rewards ?
by petra 6y ago
What's the point of accomplishing stuff without any rewards ?
- bsder 6y agoBecause you want something done and out of your way so you can do something more important? I once wrote a piece of software specifically in the hopes that companies with shitty implementations would steal it just so I would never have to deal with the problem ever again.
- asveikau 6y agoPeople have all sorts of reasons to do things. Why are you reading this right now? Is it because someone will reward you for doing it? If you are going to define purposes and motivations in life so narrowly, then I may as well take it to its extreme, get existential or nihilist and say nothing has any intrinsic value at all, so why do it? Of course we still do these things.
- petra 6y agoSure, I agree, there are many useful rewards in life. And it's nice to pursue them. But contributing, in the context of work, without getting some real reward, over time ? Just seems really unfair, and I don't like that feeling.