My dad just finally acknowledged that my wife and I are never actually “off” work. Even on vacation and holidays we still have to constantly be thinking about what we have waiting when we get back to the office (not necessarily a physical space)
That being said, there’s a quality of life that I want to maintain for my family. I like having a place to live, I like to eat food, I like having water and transportation. Those things require money. The only way to get the money is to provide a good or service that is marketable. So I work. I think one of the reasons the older generations (which now includes millennials) are somewhat (or overtly) hostile to this anti capitalism is because we don’t really see a way out. If we stop, we lose all of the things that we have literally worked our entire lives to gain- and asking people to give up everything they have worked for to uphold an ideal that many of us don’t agree with in the first place is unrealistic. (The ideal being that all of a sudden society will just become one big commune where everyone just openly shares all goods, services, and labor “for the common good”.).
We can’t even stop killing each other over dirt and whether we agree about the sky monster that controls everything. How in the fuck are we going to get everyone to agree to work for free so we can all have the same quality of life across the board. How do you quantify the value of a more dangerous job, or disgusting job, vs an easy job, or fun job?
Fatherofdaughters85 t1_j6dr74w wrote
Reply to comment by greenknight884 in Parents sometimes scoff when younger generations don't want to work as hard as they did or have kids, but part of why they don't want that is because they witnessed the misery of their parents. by smugglingkittens
My dad just finally acknowledged that my wife and I are never actually “off” work. Even on vacation and holidays we still have to constantly be thinking about what we have waiting when we get back to the office (not necessarily a physical space)
That being said, there’s a quality of life that I want to maintain for my family. I like having a place to live, I like to eat food, I like having water and transportation. Those things require money. The only way to get the money is to provide a good or service that is marketable. So I work. I think one of the reasons the older generations (which now includes millennials) are somewhat (or overtly) hostile to this anti capitalism is because we don’t really see a way out. If we stop, we lose all of the things that we have literally worked our entire lives to gain- and asking people to give up everything they have worked for to uphold an ideal that many of us don’t agree with in the first place is unrealistic. (The ideal being that all of a sudden society will just become one big commune where everyone just openly shares all goods, services, and labor “for the common good”.).
We can’t even stop killing each other over dirt and whether we agree about the sky monster that controls everything. How in the fuck are we going to get everyone to agree to work for free so we can all have the same quality of life across the board. How do you quantify the value of a more dangerous job, or disgusting job, vs an easy job, or fun job?