Comment on What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials & Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working.

• hydrospanner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m not saying you do but that’s fine, but you’re pretty much saying that working has to be boring and undesirable, which it absolutely doesn’t have to be.

  I’m saying nothing of the sort.

  All I’m saying is that if you’re working at a job, you’re being paid to do what your employer asks you to do. If you happen to enjoy it, great, but that’s incidental, your only choice is to keep doing what they want or to stop and then stop getting paid.

  If you don’t have to work, though, now you get to choose what to do with your time. And if the thing you’d most want to do with that power of choice is to give it right back to your employer, then idk…just seems sad to me.

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  • LufyCZ@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What’s you opinion on volunteering then? Maybe people do it because it makes them feel good that they’re doing something they want to.

    And they’re not getting paid to do it.

    Why not do something you enjoy and get paid while you’re at it?

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