I wonder how many people understand why they work. What is the reason they went to work, why they want to work. As a kid growing up I feel I was pretty fortunate in the variety of people and families I knew. I knew somewhat wealthy people, famous people, middle class people, and poor people. I also knew some of the different reason, thought processes, behind their choices and life styles.
I went to work initially because I wanted to have better toys than I could get by being on welfare. I did not want to be rich nor famous, nor poor. I just wanted what I thought would make me happy.
I did not dislike any of the various groups. The poor had just as much drive as the rich on what their likes and dislikes were. They had the same needs, just at different levels. neither group was happier or sadder than the other. The only group that was slightly different from all the others were the famous ones. They seemed to be the loneliest group of people.
I kept working because I still liked buying toys, then I kept working because I had responsibilities to others. While I worked to primarily buy nice toys, I also learned while I was working, maybe not more about my job, but about how to live when I no longer worked. I learned to garden to grow things, and even though i do not currently have a garden, I know I can grow food. I learned how to make or fix things, because I wanted to buy toys not give someone else my toy buying money.
So now I am retired, during my working life I got to buy a lot of toys, I don't have many of the toys anymore, they were just fleeting things, but I have the memories of the fun I had and the joy those toys I bought, brought me.
It cost nothing to share.
Better toys, is probably why most go, right?
Living up to the expectations of others is not a fun life, I presume.
Fix things? You must be ancient! ;)
Do you know people who never grow out of their toys? THey seem to live the life of a child wanting more matchbox cars.
I really don't think people know why they go to work any more, it just seems that society says you need to have societies idea of a real job or you are not a part of society. I'm not sure people work to buy and enjoy toys anymore.
I do see and hear a lot of why do you need that, why are you spending money on that, that is a want, you don't really need it. You need to understand the difference between need, want and desire, stop wasting your money. I have been guilty of that before, but some times you need to put want and desire above need in order to fulfill a need, and people do not understand that.
You don't need to buy/invest in crypto, it is a want in order to fulfill a possible future need. The idea that if buying today, you may go hungry, is good for today if you don't buy, but what about in ten years when you may find it difficult to forage free food from nature like a cheery tree, or an apple tree or a birds nest, or any dozens upon dozens of other free food from nature. The point is there are always very good reason to not buy toys, to not buy wants, to not buy desires, and by not buying those a life of work is meaningless.
They work to buy, the enjoy part seems to be an unfilled expectation, so they buy bigger and better.
Yes, but there has to be balance. For many, it becomes much like an addiction always requiring more to satisfy, but still leaving an unquenchable hole.
Yes, but it is toward a collective need also, one that sets in motion the replacement of a system that is ever faster crushing the majority within it.