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Re:The Mature Programmer by dustingetz on Sunday December 04, 2011 @11:37AM (#3310982)
well, outside the startup community, there is a whole world of people who work a boring job so they can raise a happy family, or play with powerboats, or whatever. less productive, sure, but nobody really cares outside of a meritocracy. and who are we to say they are less happy.
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Re:The Mature Programmer by ryanklee on Sunday December 04, 2011 @04:50PM (#3311963)
> boring job

and

> who are we to say they are less happy

Well, it's fairly uncontroversial and trivial to my mind that a less boring workday makes for the happier employee, and happier employees make for happier people -- ergo, it can be safely said that to the same extent someone works a boring job, they are that much less happy than the person who works a non-boring job. It's not a matter of unjustified judgment at all -- who the hell doesn't want a job that instills a sense of self-fulfillment?

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