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I think it's interesting how indoctrinated we've become with regards to the necessity of work.. It's not like life HAS to work.. Humans are pretty much the only
by dusted 4y ago
I think it's interesting how indoctrinated we've become with regards to the necessity of work.. It's not like life HAS to work.. Humans are pretty much the only animals that do that, and while there have been good reasons for it.. It's been pretty artificial for a long time..
Before the industrial revolution, people dreamt of the machines coming to take their toil away, to free them to play and enjoy life.
At some point we got lost in our toil and it became our identity and life, we started to live to work.. And now many have been so acclimated to this existence that they cannot even imagine how life could be wonderful without constantly having to work to survive.
- mvdwoord 4y agoI think it is partially due to the fact that humans tend to impose their will over others. I guess a lot of people don't trust eachother enough that abundant resources will be shared adequately and fair enough for everyone to enjoy life and play. I think this is warranted to a degree until we figure out how to deal with this.
- stcroixx 4y agoWild animals spend almost all of their time on providing themselves with food and shelter - if they could talk, I doubt they would describe this as recreation, but work.