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Re:“Rest and vest”: engineers who get paid and barely work by sjg007 on Sunday August 06, 2017 @05:51PM (#14943819)
Because some people want to work, to be useful? Redditing is like shouting into the void, totally useless (hacker news is kinda similar). At the top of Maslow's hierarchy is where you find the need to do work that contributes to society.

I read this NYTimes articles about a New Yorker who was paid $5m to vacate his apartment for new development. He was the last hold out. It turns out when he was young he was in medical school but dropped out after he received a sizable inheritance. He was also quite good in school etc...

His regret? I could've been a doctor! Basically he felt his life was unlived and unexamined despite the luxury of money.

So if you rest and vest but spend 8hrs a day at work doing nothing... then what's the point? How long would you do it?

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Re:“Rest and vest”: engineers who get paid and barely work by lmm on Monday August 07, 2017 @07:15AM (#14946646)
But most contributions to society are about labour saving - if we don't think that kind of life is valuable then surely those contributions aren't really valuable either.
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Re:“Rest and vest”: engineers who get paid and barely work by chronic8k on Monday August 07, 2017 @06:32AM (#14946484)
> So if you rest and vest but spend 8hrs a day at work doing nothing... then what's the point? How long would you do it?

Forever. There are 7 billion people in this world. If it's not you or me, there will always be someone else.

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