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Not necessarily, but every bullshit job pays the bills and most of them give at least a social context and a form of identification. Finding meaning is simply
by WA 3y ago
Not necessarily, but every bullshit job pays the bills and most of them give at least a social context and a form of identification.
Finding meaning is simply less important than having food on the table and a social circle, even if it’s just the watercooler talk with colleagues.
Not saying it’s impossible to find meaning outside of employment, but my observation and experience is that it’s not as easy as "stop working bullshit jobs and you will find meaning easily".
- banannaise 3y ago> but every bullshit job pays the bills This completely discards the premise. We're talking about a hypothetical world where we don't need work from people, and where it would make very little sense to require meaningless work in exchange for having your needs met. (We're also talking about the actual present world, where we don't need nearly as much work as we're forcing people to do, so the above should still be partially true, but it really isn't.)