The modality of work is the least important part of my comment. You can replace work with any of 'running your own business. Freelancing. Working for Uber' and

The modality of work is the least important part of my comment. You can replace work with any of 'running your own business. Freelancing. Working for Uber' and the comment is the same. The person that runs a business because it needs to is 'forced' in a similar way (although one might expect most entrepreneurs to derive some pleasure from their work, this is also true for general workers. The point stands) About the responsibilities - without quotes because they are concrete and not IMO there's not much room for arguing otherwise: I'm not a researcher in this area but have frequent contact with people who do. It is my impression that what you stated is thoroughly refuted, and with nearly absolute consensus, by research on social norms and its impact on human psychology. I could be wrong - as this is me interpreting words of experts in a field I can't grasp - but I do talk to them; and every time I bring up a point that resembles in spirit what you said - a sense of 'yeah but people have individuality and can act on it, right?' causes them to promptly and thoroughly state that yes, but not so much for the majority of things we do. Apparently, most things we do are motivated by our relation to other people, sometimes in incoherent ways. This doesn't sound too farfetched to me, to be honest. Btw - With the risk of sounding too aggressive, which is not my intention, saying that people don't "have" to care for elders because they "can" just let them die is either incredibly naïve or incredibly cynical. People don't "have" to have children - but after they do, does it matter if it by accident or choice? Can we "just let" babies starve too, or just the old and invalid? Also - if you do so, you are absolutely arrested and dragged into a cubicle (and you don't get to go out possibly ever, which is worse than 'until you do'). This is not a fruitful discussion but you chose terrible examples for a point that I found to have little merit, by arguing myself with experts that told me I'm wrong. Who knows? I'll take their word for it until (if ever) I can study it myself.