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> but half of us go to low paid jobs that are not somehow more human than what he depicted And half of us go to high paid jobs that are not somehow more human
by StavrosK 6y ago
> but half of us go to low paid jobs that are not somehow more human than what he depicted
And half of us go to high paid jobs that are not somehow more human than what he depicted.
Beware the cultural, subconscious lie that "more money means you're happier". Plenty of low-paid people are happier at their jobs than plenty of millionaires.
- rcMgD2BwE72F 6y agoThen why keep all this money in the hand of unhappy people (who mostly hoard it)? Does unhappiness help with capital allocation? Could concentrating wealth in the hands of a few cause unhappiness and trouble both their owner nor the rest of society (who would do better if they had more control)?
- StavrosK 6y agoI didn't say all rich people are unhappy, I said not all poor people are unhappy and not all rich people are happy.
- lb1lf 6y ago"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." (Lev Tolstoi; 'Anna Karenina') ('Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему.'), for the purists.)
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- david927 6y agoThat is an opaque point and adds nothing to our discussion.
- soco 6y agoMoney may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus. (Françoise Sagan)
- shard 6y agoReminds me of the girl who said, "I would rather cry in a BMW than smile on a bicycle." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_would_rather_cry_in_a_BMW https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_would_rather_cry_in_a_BMW
- toddh 6y agoSounds like something you might say at the beginning of your life and shake your head at later in life.
- quickthrower2 6y agoBut you’ll be shaking your head in a Jaguar, hopefully. (Personally I’m not into cars so all this seems silly to me!)
- Jetrel 6y agoI feel like a much better quote, which really hits on the more meaningful parts of it is this one, attributed to a "Helen Gurley Brown": "Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort." Money may not bring you fulfillment, or love, etc. But currently, it can decisively solve most of Maslow's hierarchy-of-needs (with a few exceptions like illness). The unhappiness from having a hole in Maslow's hierarchy is a pretty bitter, cruel thing - especially if reaches the point of losing family members or friends.
- friendlybus 6y agoIt's usually the rich that extol the virtues of being poor.
- david927 6y agoThe argument is not whether some of the poor are happy in the jobs and some wealthy are not. The argument is about the future and what it could look like. The hope of machinery is that it can free us. And yet if we look around, much of labor is rote and serves merely to sustain existence. Instead of freeing us, we are incorporated into the machine framework, and it has reduced our humanity. That's what Lang warned us about and that's what we're finding.