Re:Loneliness is a serious public-health problem
by joaomacp on Sunday September 09, 2018 @04:38AM
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> they worked to live out their other activities, instead of living to work.
I'm from Europe, and I agree. Not everyone, but most people look at a job as just a means to a salary, regardless of what they do.
But I'm actually critical of this mindset: if you see things that way, then you are spending a great amount of your time doing something 'because you have to', slogging through the work day just to get to the stuff you like to do.
I know I'm generalizing, but I perceive Americans as more intense workers than Europeans. Maybe it's worse for their health, but look at what it's done to the world: space travel, computers, the internet, smartphones: all things that dominate the world (and are ultimately good, even though they have bad sides) and were made / greatly developed in America.
Re:Loneliness is a serious public-health problem
by ntsplnkv2 on Sunday September 09, 2018 @08:33AM
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Most Americans feel this way to. Most aren't working for NASA or doing meaningful work. They just need a paycheck, to pay for all the crap they bought on credit.
I'm from Europe, and I agree. Not everyone, but most people look at a job as just a means to a salary, regardless of what they do.
But I'm actually critical of this mindset: if you see things that way, then you are spending a great amount of your time doing something 'because you have to', slogging through the work day just to get to the stuff you like to do.
I know I'm generalizing, but I perceive Americans as more intense workers than Europeans. Maybe it's worse for their health, but look at what it's done to the world: space travel, computers, the internet, smartphones: all things that dominate the world (and are ultimately good, even though they have bad sides) and were made / greatly developed in America.
So hyper-capitalism isn't all that bad :)