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Oct 13, 2017, 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Shazerac
I agree that your life is going to be extremely difficult if you view work as enslavement. However the cold hard facts are that you have to find some way to put food in your mouth and a roof over your head. Before jobs were invented poeple still had to hunt for food, or grow it, and gather materials to build a shelter. Unless you go off the grid and grow your own food and hunt, you will need some means of obtaining a medium of exchange (money) to obtain the things you need.
Unless of course you feel like that all these things should be provided for you with no effort on your part. In this case some else is being a slave to give you what you want.
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Agreed. And not all work is drudgery. Many people greatly enjoy their jobs and get a huge sense of fulfillment out of it. I know I do. Yes, some days the pace and the requirement to be in the office make me feel like a slave, but then other days I see the faces of children whose lives I've helped to change and I feel renewed with purpose.
I've thought many times that I'd like to be a farmer or rancher and grow/raise my own food and go off the grid in that way, because I like the idea of self-reliance, etc. If that's the way you view life and the value you give to work, then you're going to be very unhappy. It's all about perspective. You may view working people as slaves, but our work and our taxes support those who cannot. I do not see myself as a slave. I see myself as an important part of society that helps to benefit the less fortunate.
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