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I'm not a wageslave. I still work. Money can't be the reason you do things. It eventually comes too easily to be worth the pain. Meaning has to come from some

I'm not a wageslave. I still work. Money can't be the reason you do things. It eventually comes too easily to be worth the pain. Meaning has to come from somewhere else. Jim Carry said it well with “I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.”

bheadmaster 4y ago
> I'm not a wageslave. How long can you go without working before being completely broke? If the answer is indefinitely, then congratulations, you're rich. Otherwise, you're a wageslave, since you have no choice but to keep working. I know, I know, you can be forced to work and still enjoy it. But you can also enjoy rape, that doesn't make it universally good. > Money can't be the reason you do things. Money is not the end, money is the means to an end. My end is to live a life ungoverned by the system in which I have to spend the third of my life doing whatever someone else tells me to. For that, I need enough money not to need a job.
- ghufran_syed 4y ago
  Isn’t wanting “enough money to not have to work” similar to wanting your body to not need oxygen or food or sleep? Sure, it would be amazing in many ways, but perhaps a tad unrealistic? I guess the problem is that we see some people who are in that position with respect to money and it makes us jealous? But we can choose whether to feel gratitude for what we have or feel jealousy for what we don’t have, and it’s probably obvious which course is healthier IMO
  - bheadmaster 4y ago
    > Isn’t wanting “enough money to not have to work” similar to wanting your body to not need oxygen or food or sleep? It is, by proxy. However, breathing, eating and sleeping are activities that don't require much effort, and some of them are in fact pleasurable due to our biological imperative. Work, on the other hand, is rarely pleasant - you have to be lucky to have a job you actually enjoy, the real world work is full of pointless bureaucracy, goals that don't align with your beliefs, repetitive boring tasks, synthetic deadlines, and so on. > Sure, it would be amazing in many ways, but perhaps a tad unrealistic? There are people out there that have enough money not to work, so it's not that unrealistic. > But we can choose whether to feel gratitude for what we have or feel jealousy for what we don’t have, and it’s probably obvious which course is healthier IMO Feelings, by their definition, are not voluntary. I don't believe I can simply "choose" how to feel.
- lm28469 4y ago
  Can you tell us your age, I'm very interested

bheadmaster 4y ago

> I'm not a wageslave. How long can you go without working before being completely broke? If the answer is indefinitely, then congratulations, you're rich. Otherwise, you're a wageslave, since you have no choice but to keep working. I know, I know, you can be forced to work and still enjoy it. But you can also enjoy rape, that doesn't make it universally good. > Money can't be the reason you do things. Money is not the end, money is the means to an end. My end is to live a life ungoverned by the system in which I have to spend the third of my life doing whatever someone else tells me to. For that, I need enough money not to need a job.

ghufran_syed 4y ago
Isn’t wanting “enough money to not have to work” similar to wanting your body to not need oxygen or food or sleep? Sure, it would be amazing in many ways, but perhaps a tad unrealistic? I guess the problem is that we see some people who are in that position with respect to money and it makes us jealous? But we can choose whether to feel gratitude for what we have or feel jealousy for what we don’t have, and it’s probably obvious which course is healthier IMO
- bheadmaster 4y ago
  > Isn’t wanting “enough money to not have to work” similar to wanting your body to not need oxygen or food or sleep? It is, by proxy. However, breathing, eating and sleeping are activities that don't require much effort, and some of them are in fact pleasurable due to our biological imperative. Work, on the other hand, is rarely pleasant - you have to be lucky to have a job you actually enjoy, the real world work is full of pointless bureaucracy, goals that don't align with your beliefs, repetitive boring tasks, synthetic deadlines, and so on. > Sure, it would be amazing in many ways, but perhaps a tad unrealistic? There are people out there that have enough money not to work, so it's not that unrealistic. > But we can choose whether to feel gratitude for what we have or feel jealousy for what we don’t have, and it’s probably obvious which course is healthier IMO Feelings, by their definition, are not voluntary. I don't believe I can simply "choose" how to feel.
lm28469 4y ago
Can you tell us your age, I'm very interested