Re:Young men dropping out of the job market to spend time in...
by psyc on Thursday March 16, 2017 @11:06PM
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I really dislike the romanticizing of employment as "solving problems." The effect of employment is that somebody's problems get solved, but as the employee, they aren't my problems, and subjectively it feels like mostly solving a lot of meta-problems like how to follow somebody else's process and get along with all kinds of coworkers. If employment felt like object-level problem solving, I'd be employed.
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Re:Young men dropping out of the job market to spend time in...
by pbkhrv on Thursday March 16, 2017 @11:16PM
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I'm with you, to some degree. By "solving problems" I was referring to the parent comment's phrase "provided we're able to keep the scarcity problem solved", which I read as "let (vague, unidentified) them solve the scarcity problem while I play video games".
Re:Young men dropping out of the job market to spend time in...
by kcdev on Thursday March 16, 2017 @11:34PM
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Your objective is to get a paycheck. It doesn't have to be more complicated than that. Then, use your off time do things more important to you.
Re:Young men dropping out of the job market to spend time in...
by projektir on Thursday March 16, 2017 @11:40PM
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Getting that paycheck saps the majority of the time and energy of a given person. Using a paycheck as a side effect to actually do something useful seems like a very strange system.
Re:Young men dropping out of the job market to spend time in...
by kcdev on Friday March 17, 2017 @09:15AM
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It's the capitalist system. If you want to set the objective, then get to work and create the means for yourself to do so. It's so easy to blame the boomers, but in my day job, all I see are younger people who expect a promotion after 6 months, while the boomers are happy to have a job, come in, do what's expected, and don't complain.