I held a lot of views in my youth that I dismissed later in life, including something akin to this anti-work sentiment, among many other anti-consumer, anti-tec

I held a lot of views in my youth that I dismissed later in life, including something akin to this anti-work sentiment, among many other anti-consumer, anti-technology, anti-society nonsense. I abandoned them in my maturity but they had real value in my life and continue to mark and influence my perspective later in life. So in some sense I don't mind seeing the paradoxes or irrationalities of this type of thinking. It's a healthy part of development for young people. Yeah it is sometimes over the top, and some people never outgrow it. But I mean the basic sentiment isn't hard to agree on -- the purpose of life isn't to work for someone else in a soul-crushing environment. And while one may concede that work is a fact of nature, one might also respond that it's alienated labour, blah blah blah, and they have a good point.