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hydrospanner@lemmy.world 1 month agoI feel like the only way to respond to that shit is with a simple, “Nobody has wanted to work ever.”
If either: people had the option to get paid at their current rate but not have to do their current job at all anymore…or the opposite, that they were expected to keep working at their current job but were told they’d no longer receive any pay for it ever again…how many do you think would still keep working at that job?
Way less than 1%.
Because (very nearly) nobody wants to work. They want money, and the most common way of getting money is… you guess it…to work.
The whole point of employment is that you’re performing a task that nobody is going to just do for free because they like it…so whomever wants that task to be done has to offer an incentive to get people to do it instead of literally anything else.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Idk, once I have enough to retire, I’ll certainly quit my job, but my hobbies look very similar to my job. The thing I don’t like about my job is the obligation, not the actual work itself, and I’d probably end up spending a similar amount of time if I didn’t need the paycheck, I’d just do it at different times in the day (like 2-3 hours in the morning, 5-6 hours in the evening).
I’m a software developer and my hobbies are FOSS projects. I like my job, but I love my hobby projects even more. I’d even take a modest pay cut if I could work on FOSS full-time.
hydrospanner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So if your job sent you an email tomorrow that said they were going to stop paying you from here on out, indefinitely, you’d quit working for them and do something you wanted to do instead, even if it was broadly similar to what you are currently doing for them?
Thanks, that’s exactly what I’m talking about.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
If they gave me a lump sum such that I don’t need the money anymore, I’d probably keep working there for a year or two at least, but reduce my hours a bit. I like my company, team, and project, so it’s nice to have something steady to work on.
But longer term, yeah, I’d probably replace that time with FOSS work once I get onto a really interesting project.
hydrospanner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s a very creative and roundabout way of saying you do expect to be paid for your work and would quit your job if they quit paying you.