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"People need work to feel fulfilled." I never thought I'd see Stockholm syndrome in the wild.

by ravedave5 5y ago

lezojeda 5y ago
Are you kidnapped or held against your will by your employer?
- ravedave5 5y ago
  Are you able to keep a shelter over your head and food in your belly without work?
  - CountDrewku 5y ago
    Huh? Are you expecting others to take care of your needs while you do nothing? At what time in history has this ever been an option. You would be dead in a ditch with this attitude for most of our history. Maybe you need to go out into the woods and survive without help to force an attitude change. You have a skewed since of reality egged on by a society that's let you survive off of doing basically nothing and yet you still complain. The problem here is that you believe all of the stuff to keep you alive just magically appears without anyone doing any work.
    - CRConrad 5y ago
      Way to evade the question.
      - CountDrewku 5y ago
        I'm not evading anything, your question doesn't make sense.
        CRConrad 5y ago
        What "my" question?!? The question you declined to answer (while still spouting something in reply) wasn't mine. Do try to keep up, please. Thank you.
zero102 5y ago
They do. You do, I do, everyone does. You're maliciously interpreting OP to imply that "slaving over a hot keyboard" is the only way to feel fulfilled. Whether you are an employee, company owner, gardener, woodworker, whatever you are being fulfilled by "working". Applying yourself willfully and deliberately to a problem. If you are not being fulfilled you find something else. Or, like most people, you realize working for someone won't be fulfilling, so you instead seek fulfillment in work that you enjoy - such as your hobbies. This equating of employment with slavery by the /r/antiwork types is why the subreddit is quickly becoming the butt of every joke. Yes, it's not uncommon your profession is unfulfilling. Most well adjusted people derive fulfillment from work outside of their profession.
- CRConrad 5y ago
  Once one understands your idiosyncratic definition of "work", you are of course right. But your statement is still quite meaningless as part of a discussion, because that's not how everybody else uses the word, and a discussion where one participant uses his own terms, wildly divergent from everyone else's, can never get anywhere meaningful.
GladHatter 5y ago
Can confirm this to be true. I was lucky enough to sell my tech startup a few years ago and become a multi-millionaire overnight. I did the usual newly-rich stuff like buy a sports car, take vacations, go to the beach a bunch, etc. It became boring, and I started sliding into bad behaviors such as drinking most days. I knew I had to change it up for my own health and sanity, so I started another company. This has given me something to do with my day and I'm much happier and healthier for it.

"People need work to feel fulfilled." I never thought I'd see Stockholm syndrome in the wild.

lezojeda 5y ago

Are you kidnapped or held against your will by your employer?

ravedave5 5y ago
Are you able to keep a shelter over your head and food in your belly without work?
- CountDrewku 5y ago
  Huh? Are you expecting others to take care of your needs while you do nothing? At what time in history has this ever been an option. You would be dead in a ditch with this attitude for most of our history. Maybe you need to go out into the woods and survive without help to force an attitude change. You have a skewed since of reality egged on by a society that's let you survive off of doing basically nothing and yet you still complain. The problem here is that you believe all of the stuff to keep you alive just magically appears without anyone doing any work.
  - CRConrad 5y ago
    Way to evade the question.
    - CountDrewku 5y ago
      I'm not evading anything, your question doesn't make sense.
      - CRConrad 5y ago
        What "my" question?!? The question you declined to answer (while still spouting something in reply) wasn't mine. Do try to keep up, please. Thank you.

zero102 5y ago

They do. You do, I do, everyone does. You're maliciously interpreting OP to imply that "slaving over a hot keyboard" is the only way to feel fulfilled. Whether you are an employee, company owner, gardener, woodworker, whatever you are being fulfilled by "working". Applying yourself willfully and deliberately to a problem. If you are not being fulfilled you find something else. Or, like most people, you realize working for someone won't be fulfilling, so you instead seek fulfillment in work that you enjoy - such as your hobbies. This equating of employment with slavery by the /r/antiwork types is why the subreddit is quickly becoming the butt of every joke. Yes, it's not uncommon your profession is unfulfilling. Most well adjusted people derive fulfillment from work outside of their profession.

CRConrad 5y ago
Once one understands your idiosyncratic definition of "work", you are of course right. But your statement is still quite meaningless as part of a discussion, because that's not how everybody else uses the word, and a discussion where one participant uses his own terms, wildly divergent from everyone else's, can never get anywhere meaningful.

GladHatter 5y ago

Can confirm this to be true. I was lucky enough to sell my tech startup a few years ago and become a multi-millionaire overnight. I did the usual newly-rich stuff like buy a sports car, take vacations, go to the beach a bunch, etc. It became boring, and I started sliding into bad behaviors such as drinking most days. I knew I had to change it up for my own health and sanity, so I started another company. This has given me something to do with my day and I'm much happier and healthier for it.