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You’re not getting paid to be kept busy, and you’re not getting paid because what you do is interesting and fun. You’re getting paid because you provide real va
by brap 4y ago
You’re not getting paid to be kept busy, and you’re not getting paid because what you do is interesting and fun. You’re getting paid because you provide real value to someone.
You are free to vastly reduce your own economic activity and the value it brings with it. Then see how it affects your own ability to provide food, shelter, or safety to your own household.
Work is not some made up game we all just decided to play because we’re bored. Someone needs to harvest the crops, build the houses, and protect from harm. None of this comes for free, and we all have to pay for it somehow.
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- heeen2 4y ago> You’re getting paid because you provide real value to someone. Often you're getting paid because you provide potential future value to someone. Meaning that plenty of projects whole teams are paid for eventually get canceled with very little or zero ROI.
- CuriousSkeptic 4y agoExploring the economic language in search of new value to harvest, setting an example for other to follow, or avoid, not unlike how ants explore. Or as some motivational poster put it: “It may very well be that the purpose of yore life is to set a warning example to others.”