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> If everyone did what what they find most fulfilling, our net happiness will rise And no one would literally pick up the garbage. This utopic silliness alway
by jmye 2y ago
> If everyone did what what they find most fulfilling, our net happiness will rise
And no one would literally pick up the garbage.
This utopic silliness always assumes someone, who is never you, will somehow want to do the things you don’t want to do that are generally necessary to make your life whatever it is, wherever you are.
It’s too bad - I think there’s a great point in here about not competing with the stupid stuff you see on social media. Everyone would be better off if they ignored the influencers instead of trying to live up to them.
- card_zero 2y agoIt's possible to want to pick up the garbage. I don't claim it can be "most fulfilling", but it can be part of a wider scheme of what one wants to do. I think it's reasonable to hope that you never have to do anything you don't want to do - if what you want to do is reasonable. That is, I think it would be twisted to say that everybody necessarily must do things they don't want to. Doing what you don't want to is incoherent and desperate. Which of these things that you didn't choose to have to do, do you choose to do? On the other hand, so is hedonism, because "pleasure" doesn't mean very much.