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> basically what would your ideal job be Easy. A nonexistent one. If you didn't need money, why would you be seeking a job? > would you contribute towards mak

> basically what would your ideal job be Easy. A nonexistent one. If you didn't need money, why would you be seeking a job? > would you contribute towards making society more rational, healthy, and well-coordinated? How does a job contribute to 'society'? Who works to contribute to society? What company exists to 'contribute to society'? Has 'hacker' news become so cynical to believe one's existence is about finding a job?

gxs 2y ago
Oh get off it, the dude is asking what you’d work in if you had all the money in the world. It’s not hard to understand the spirit of his question. If your answer is none, that’s great, I think the follow up sermon was unnecessary.
- linearrust 2y ago
  > It’s not hard to understand the spirit of his question. Agreed. That's why I answered as I did. > If your answer is none, that’s great, I think the follow up sermon was unnecessary. You proved it was necessary. Might want to look into why you are getting so defensive. Seems like I touched a nerve.
dragcavecheater 2y ago
Come on, you're being intentionally dense. OP framed your quote as a question, not a statement. They're not exploring nor judging people on whether or not they should be contributing to society even with no pressure towards it. They're asking the if they think they would, and how. A "no" suffices. And in fact, is valuable, as it feeds the secondary implicit survey you allude to. Personally, that's my answer. My public contribution would be in archival, I'd edit a lot of wiki pages. But it would be driven by my interest, not practicality, so it would be mostly useless to society at large. Most of my time would actually be consumed by personal stuff for my friend groups.
6510 2y ago
I like your questions. They are the sum of what our culture and society projects onto us. The question to ask is what kind of people you want to create? It is perhaps a bit arrogant to think one can upgrade such a complex device. It can be a modest modification tho. Then you find ways to push society in that direction. You probably wont move mountains but we work with what we have. This nudging might involve a company depending on where we are going. I doubt one could contribute to society directly. Calling it a job is just our nutty vocabulary. The ancient Greeks would probably call it leisure. I had some pretty good ideas for myself but the problem I kept running into is that people are so fucking unimaginative and nihilistic that they get angry if they cant have their cynical 3 seconds glory of "I told you it wouldn't work"

gxs 2y ago

Oh get off it, the dude is asking what you’d work in if you had all the money in the world. It’s not hard to understand the spirit of his question. If your answer is none, that’s great, I think the follow up sermon was unnecessary.

linearrust 2y ago
> It’s not hard to understand the spirit of his question. Agreed. That's why I answered as I did. > If your answer is none, that’s great, I think the follow up sermon was unnecessary. You proved it was necessary. Might want to look into why you are getting so defensive. Seems like I touched a nerve.

dragcavecheater 2y ago

Come on, you're being intentionally dense. OP framed your quote as a question, not a statement. They're not exploring nor judging people on whether or not they should be contributing to society even with no pressure towards it. They're asking the if they think they would, and how. A "no" suffices. And in fact, is valuable, as it feeds the secondary implicit survey you allude to. Personally, that's my answer. My public contribution would be in archival, I'd edit a lot of wiki pages. But it would be driven by my interest, not practicality, so it would be mostly useless to society at large. Most of my time would actually be consumed by personal stuff for my friend groups.

6510 2y ago

I like your questions. They are the sum of what our culture and society projects onto us. The question to ask is what kind of people you want to create? It is perhaps a bit arrogant to think one can upgrade such a complex device. It can be a modest modification tho. Then you find ways to push society in that direction. You probably wont move mountains but we work with what we have. This nudging might involve a company depending on where we are going. I doubt one could contribute to society directly. Calling it a job is just our nutty vocabulary. The ancient Greeks would probably call it leisure. I had some pretty good ideas for myself but the problem I kept running into is that people are so fucking unimaginative and nihilistic that they get angry if they cant have their cynical 3 seconds glory of "I told you it wouldn't work"