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OP...no obligation to work, or otherwise be productive for yourself or 'society'. Enjoy the last month of your life. You can probably stay alive that long on free public water.
Society takes a broader approach to this dilemma. Look at Health Care for example. Many people don't wish to work/pay, but they appreciate the resource when they don't feel well. New legislation has eliminated that conundrum. You work and buy health insurance, or you don't get health care.
Quite honestly, I am fine with that. My costs will go down, and the folks who don't wish to work in order to care for themselves have an option as well.
We're all happy. Some are just not alive to appreciate their good fortune.
Hey, if you can earn money without actually doing any work, more power to you!
This isn't the same thing, but you might want to consider investing in "blue chip" companies that give dividends. You won't become rich by any means but over time it is possible that you can get away with doing less work if that is what you want.
Go to a deserted area where there are trees to build a small, one-room home, with a river near by for water and livestock that you can eat for food. Sell your home, your TV, your computer, your furniture, your car, your jewelry, and then you'll just rely on yourself for everything, not stores for every need. You are now not a slave to the "working force" in the present society and your tears are now gone from that horrid job you had to endure.
Go to a deserted area where there are trees to build a small, one-room home, with a river near by for water and livestock that you can eat for food. Sell your home, your TV, your computer, your furniture, your car, your jewelry, and then you'll just rely on yourself for everything, not stores for every need. You are now not a slave to the "working force" in the present society and your tears are now gone from that horrid job you had to endure.
Guest: I hear you. You sound a lot like I was and have been most of my life. People like us are thinkers, maybe dreamers, "jack of all trades". I got into corporate life about 13 years ago, but I still have a hard time with it. I think we're just at odds with the American "capitalist" mentality. It doesn't suit our personality. It doesn't mean we're lazy or stupid, it just means this culture is not set up to reward someone like us. If you can find a job where you're doing something you love, that's really the way to go. We just have one life, so we need to make the most of it, and slaving away to put money in other people's pockets isn't my idea of the proper life.
I think it's a fantasy to think people were "more free" in the past. There really was no culture of leisure for many people until after the industrial revolution, and even then it was by no means universal. People are more free now, in that if we want to eat, we don't have hunt or grow our own food; if we want to be sheltered, we don't have to build our own houses; if we want to be warm, we don't have to chop down trees and stoke our own fires. You can argue that people are slaves to money, but I'd rather exchange money for goods and services (and exchange my time and skills for money at my job) than be a slave to hard labor.
Oh, I agree with you 100%. I didn't mean to suggest that early humans didn't have to work extremely hard or die. By "more free" I just meant that didn't have the particular kind of responsibilities we have now - having to be somewhere at a certain time for, in many cases, a specific period of time, monitored to one degree or another, etc.. They were "free" of some modern responsibilities, but EVERYTHING - the many many conveniences we take for granted - fell on their shoulders, which I why I said they were in constant danger (at risk of starving, freezing, being eaten, etc..)
In theory one could still live that way... run off into the forest and attempt to live off the land. But I think most people would agree with you that working for a living is a much easier life.
OP, That's the way the world is.You sound so negative about work and life in general. Be glad you're healthy enough to work! There are a lot of opportunities and options. Find something that you would gladly volunteer to do. Find your passion. It won't seem like work at all.
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