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Do you feel oppressed / depressed? Your work life sounds great (compared to an office rat as portrayed in the article)
by ccvannorman 5y ago
Do you feel oppressed / depressed? Your work life sounds great (compared to an office rat as portrayed in the article)
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoI am not oppressed. My work does not depress me. But the key point of TFA (and Seneca's letter that inspired it) is that the details matter less than you think: the "oppression" of the Box of Daily Reality comes more from the way you think about it rather than its actual contents. There are plenty of days when I reflect on how it was just another day, same old same old, completely predictable. Granted, I don't have to put up with the BS of a regular job, which eliminates one aspect of the Box of Daily Reality for me. But then again, I work (mostly alone) from home, and so my days involve very little physical interaction with anyone. Equivalent to the suffering of slave labor? Probably not, but just a different element of my particular Box of Daily Experience.