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Re:Wastes of Time We Regret When We Get Older by notacoward on Saturday January 27, 2018 @02:51PM (#16247781)
It's easy for each of us to look down our noses at how others spend their leisure time, but there's an important point to be made here: leisure time and wasted time are NOT THE SAME THING. Leisure is actually quite important. Grinding away constantly can lead to burnout, poor health, frayed relationships, etc. The trick is to find balance, to fill each part of your life in the most satisfying way but not to let one part overwhelm the others.

Between paid work, house/family work, exercise, etc. I work as hard as anybody else I know, and I still enjoy a good video game session. I'll be playing Horizon: Zero Dawn in a few minutes. It's a better hobby than sneering at others.

Re:Wastes of Time We Regret When We Get Older by ntsplnkv2 on Saturday January 27, 2018 @07:10PM (#16248874)
> Leisure is actually quite important. Grinding away constantly can lead to burnout, poor health, frayed relationships, etc.

It's a shame that leisure time itself has to be framed around work.

As we move forward we need to move past this concept of "work" and "productivity" as the main drivers of what it means to be human.

Re:Wastes of Time We Regret When We Get Older by Banthum on Sunday January 28, 2018 @01:48AM (#16250167)
Work doesn't define humanity, but the fruits of work are what enable humans to exist.

Also, work is the only means by which we do things that can benefit others. It's all very good to be concerned with your own experience, but if you want to be helpful to a partner, a family, or a community, you have to work.

This is why work has such meaning. It makes benefits that are not purely selfish. Benefiting other people strikes me as more meaningful than simply attending to one's self, trying to make the days until death more pleasant. This selfishness is what has always troubled me about the popular hedonistic conception of meaning that's taken hold in recent decades.

Re:Wastes of Time We Regret When We Get Older by linkmotif on Saturday January 27, 2018 @03:16PM (#16247881)
> It's a better hobby than sneering at others.

GP wasn’t sneering. GP was communicating something they experienced.