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Working hours taking up so much of our life is an orthogonal, but not totally unrelated issue. As with complaints against "working from home", I get the feelin

• oblio 6y ago
  > Working hours taking up so much of our life is an orthogonal, but not totally unrelated issue. Well, we can complain about it, but it's a fact of life. It's almost like complaining that gravity drags us down :-) Plus, for a lot of people does give them... something to do. A purpose, an activity, a place where they can use their skills and use their intellect. It's hard to do this alone if everyone else is working. I guess you could try mingling with the rich people and join charities?
  • npsimons 6y ago
    Admittedly, my views on this come from the limits of my own experience - as someone who writes (and sometimes rights) software, I highly prize uninterrupted time in flow. I suppose writing and other such similar pursuits would work very well on an work environment that was isolated. But I do try to exercise my empathy and recognize for some endeavors it's is useful to collaborate. I just wish that people wouldn't attribute intrinsic necessity of physically close collaboration where it is not warranted. My purpose or activity, even after I'm financially independent will be writing software, something I can do without having to be in close contact with people I am working with, and I in fact am much more productive when I'm not. And honestly, even at 40 hours a week, I still have a lot of time in which I've formed my best social relationships. My coworkers are nice people, I just have shockingly little in common with them outside of work.