America’s Fever of Workaholism Is Finally Breaking

Re:America’s Fever of Workaholism Is Finally Breaking by clnq on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:24PM (#34602389)

> Sorry but your ancestors were regularly getting eaten alive by wild animals a few generations back (heck it's still an existential threat to some people). People had to resort to canibalism to survive famines. Plague, TB, polio. Just a hundred years ago there was ~1 in 100 chance a woman would die during childbirth. >40% of kids would not live to age of 5 in 1800s

I'm not sure how this counters the idea that we should not dedicate our lives to menial jobs. It seems kind of unrelated.

> That attitude is so delusional it's hilarious.

I wish we turned down the snark a little bit at HN.

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Re:America’s Fever of Workaholism Is Finally Breaking by morpheos137 on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @06:00PM (#34603600)

You see your sacrifice, you uber drivers, warehouse pickers, even coders, affords the few who control capital by force of law a blissful existence.

The existential angst you feel is the price society pays so a few can reap clear benefits while many keep pace with the hedonic hampster wheel.

I mean clearly it is a price worth paying so we can watch people do silly dances on tiktok or summon an uber at 2 am to take us home from the bar.

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