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Not working. With so many people trying WFH for the first time, they got the taste and then move it step further and take 10 or 20 years sabbatical, spending th
by dvh 5y ago
Not working. With so many people trying WFH for the first time, they got the taste and then move it step further and take 10 or 20 years sabbatical, spending their retirement money now. Living, you know.
- H8crilA 5y agoFunny enough this would be a mean reversion in attitude. Praising labor for labor's sake, especially heavy labor and especially intellectual labor, is a recent phenomenon.
- bamboozled 5y agoI thought the same thing. Seems like loving / having to work work is a newer thing. You know, from factories.
- fsckboy 5y ago"sloth" is one of the seven deadly sins, not that recently either. Not to mention the mention of the Sabbath in the 10 Commandments, whereby you hsd to be told not to work, and nor covet any of your neighbor's stuff which is tangentially related.
- pwenzel 5y agoMany Europeans take a month off during the summer. Something most Americans who have two weeks time off the whole year can't even fathom.
- nkssy 5y agoI'm fairly sure plenty of folks don't even take those two weeks off. Plenty are still contactable. Plemty are actually contacted during vacation. Quite a few "come in just to sort out a few fires" or, even worse, are "encouraged to come in or don't come back".