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> What if they're doing that because they have to feed their very hungry family and their family is hungrier than yours. Does that change the calculus? Yes, it
by kdmccormick 4y ago
> What if they're doing that because they have to feed their very hungry family and their family is hungrier than yours. Does that change the calculus?
Yes, it does. I should have been more clear in the outset: I am frustrated by people who work more than 40 hours because they enjoy doing it, not because they need to in order to make ends meet.
If you work 60hrs/week in order to pay off student loan debt and feed your kid, my heart goes out to you. If you work 60hrs/week because it's your idea of fun, please log out of work and get a hobby... you're actively making harder for the parent with loan debt to capitalize on the extra 20hrs/week they're putting in.
> You're walking into this with a set of values and just assuming that everybody else has the same ones so you can throw them on the table and say, see?
I mean, kinda, yeah! I value being able to work <=40 hours a week. If you don't value that, we're going to disagree.
To reduce it to a contrived version: If you value being able to litter because it lets you get where you are going faster, I think you suck! We have divergent values, and I don't have any qualms saying that you pursuing your values actively works against my values.
- sokoloff 4y agoOne of my core values is encouraging people to make their own choices in how they spend their life.