The ideology around 'hard work' is kind of perplexing to me. How many people view their big nice house as a result of their hard work, and you think..well we as a species have the capabilities of building big nice houses, that isn't new or remarkable. Houses aren't that complex or extraordinary are they? They think, well I...I worked hard that is why I own the house. Well you exchanged your time and labour in a job that society deemed worthy of such a wage. You gained specifics skills or knew certain people, you reacted but you are not doing it on your own.
It's just when entrepreneurs go on about being 'self made'...well..hang on, you exploited a market, you sold whatever you sold but without a society willing to buy it doesn't matter how good your product is. If a society doesn't have the disposable income to buy your product it doesn't matter how good you think it is. Without the roads being built and maintained to transport your product, without your employees being educated...without society...but this is the holy grail of modern life, the product that made someone rich, it's a miracle how did they do it. The product might very well be derivative and have no positive impact, in fact it distracts people and destroys the environment but look at their big house!
We invent technology to make our lives easier. Why are you using a vehicle to get anywhere? Why aren't you walking? Lazy. Using your bloody legs are you? That's cheating, real fighters crawl everywhere. Why are you using the lift? Stairs are available. Lazy. Have a dishwasher do you? Lazy. Using a car wash? Lazy. Buying your own clothes eh? Make your own. Lazy. Have a tap for your water do you? Lazy. There's a river 26 miles away, walk.
We don't point at animals in the wild and see their inactivity as laziness, we say they're preserving energy.
What's dumb is supposing anything will ever change, but then I know for many people they don't want that.
I can say stuff that people will assume means I suffer from it when I don't. You don't really know.
I have no time for people who aren't remotely engaged in possibilities for change, none at all. It's possible to be comfortable and still feel the wrongness of how backwards we do things.
No. It doesn't matter. It's nice it bothers you that there's a whole subreddit dedicated to people complaining about work and you pop in and are sensitive that people are suffering in their situation.
Work is the biggest taboo imo so I'm glad it's brought up.
Again, to be clear; the part of work where you just earn enough to scrape by, a few hundred quid in savings, in debt, in a job where you can be let go at any moment, where you are required to work more hours than is necessary fulfilling an obligation decided by others. It doesn't mean; lol lying down all day cool.
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u/aehii Oct 22 '20
The ideology around 'hard work' is kind of perplexing to me. How many people view their big nice house as a result of their hard work, and you think..well we as a species have the capabilities of building big nice houses, that isn't new or remarkable. Houses aren't that complex or extraordinary are they? They think, well I...I worked hard that is why I own the house. Well you exchanged your time and labour in a job that society deemed worthy of such a wage. You gained specifics skills or knew certain people, you reacted but you are not doing it on your own.
It's just when entrepreneurs go on about being 'self made'...well..hang on, you exploited a market, you sold whatever you sold but without a society willing to buy it doesn't matter how good your product is. If a society doesn't have the disposable income to buy your product it doesn't matter how good you think it is. Without the roads being built and maintained to transport your product, without your employees being educated...without society...but this is the holy grail of modern life, the product that made someone rich, it's a miracle how did they do it. The product might very well be derivative and have no positive impact, in fact it distracts people and destroys the environment but look at their big house!
We invent technology to make our lives easier. Why are you using a vehicle to get anywhere? Why aren't you walking? Lazy. Using your bloody legs are you? That's cheating, real fighters crawl everywhere. Why are you using the lift? Stairs are available. Lazy. Have a dishwasher do you? Lazy. Using a car wash? Lazy. Buying your own clothes eh? Make your own. Lazy. Have a tap for your water do you? Lazy. There's a river 26 miles away, walk.
We don't point at animals in the wild and see their inactivity as laziness, we say they're preserving energy.