• exododo@leminal.space
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    1 year ago

    We don’t need a paid job to in order to work and be productive. We can volunteer to make a better society or do something creative. We need to stop making the equivalence between free time=mindless media consumption. Also, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

    The problem is we need the job money and getting it leaves us so exhausted we restore to lay down and watch a screen. But this is a situation created by the job-centric culture, not solved by it.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah bud I am a specialty nurse for disabled pediatrics, I don’t have a bullshit job. Maybe what you said applies to someone else.

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        1 year ago

        Not all jobs are bullshit of course. Yours is much needed. But that was just an example for of the argument, the core remains. Job-centric culture and chronic exhaustion is a social issue regardless of your personal experience.

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          1 year ago

          Maybe I said what I said a little too defensively. I don’t want to downplay the quality of what you might have to say on the topic, however, I feel like the r/antiwork dog walkers are upset with me for liking work. I may not be in the most receptive of places at the moment.