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I am talking about people who are orders of magnitude less motivated than you and do nothing to improve their situation. These people probably never went to col
by JoeyBananas 5y ago
I am talking about people who are orders of magnitude less motivated than you and do nothing to improve their situation. These people probably never went to college or dropped out just to stay home and play video games. In your case, working a low paying job as a college graduate is actually highly virtuous. Some college grads would rather do nothing because they think they are hot shit.
- riversflow 5y ago>working a low paying job as a college graduate is actually highly virtuous. I disagree. In principle I don't think anyone should work a low paying job, and I think opting out if you can afford it is the right thing to do. Why should we have a race to the bottom on labor? I'd rather we have more blogs and interesting reading on the internet than cheap Starbucks thanks to full employment and high labor-force participation. Work for the sake of being busy is silly, I believe industriousness like you profess is unsustainable for our planet, at least in our current social order.
- stemlord 5y agoI mean, how much of motivation comes from one's environment/upbringing... I have a strong sense that the vast majority of them thought they just didnt have opportunities to begin with, leading later to the deduction that "the game is rigged" and were destined to wage-slavery anyway. Thus no reason to motivate themselves to contribute