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what’s work for?

~nelforzo

For this month’s chat at work, I’ll be coordinating a talk about… work.

Literally that’s the subject I’ve been assigned so I started looking for angles apart from what’s been suggested:

Is work only necessary to earn a living?

To contribute to society

For personal growth

Well for me is mostly the first one but I guess all three are there in some percentage. I mean, taxes go to contributing to society, the services I created along with the team are used by a lot of people for entertainment purposes, so that counts too (work experience is also there somewhere).

I could list other reasons for the kind of work I do: provide social security for my family, a reasonable cushion for life events. In my situation as an immigrant it would be very hard to do the above as a freelancer and take some time for something other than work.

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~ropocl wrote (thread):

I think work is what you have to do to put food on the table and a roof over your head. If you weren't forced to do it by some outside pressure, you probably wouldn't refer to it as work, right?

~starbreaker wrote:

Most work in modern capitalist society is for making rich assholes even richer.