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Re:People kept working, became healthier while on basic inco... by coryrc on Thursday July 17, 2025 @10:01PM (#44600434)
> It is about doing something productive and worth-while.

Uh-huh. What percentage of software engineers jobs are "worthwhile"? Working on Amazon's nth hosted OSS SaaS? Making better DRM? Revamping your bank website to the latest javascript framework?

Re:People kept working, became healthier while on basic inco... by ReaperCub on Thursday July 17, 2025 @10:11PM (#44600502)
I suggest you re-read my comment. Who said I was talking just paid work? I am talking about doing anything productive even if it is unpaid.
Re:People kept working, became healthier while on basic inco... by 44520297 on Thursday July 17, 2025 @10:51PM (#44600721)
But you haven't offered any measurable definition of productive, so we have no means by which to self-measure whether we agree with you or not.
Re:People kept working, became healthier while on basic inco... by ReaperCub on Thursday July 17, 2025 @11:21PM (#44600879)
Please re-read my comment and come back when you can discuss things like an adult.
Re:People kept working, became healthier while on basic inco... by 44520297 on Friday July 18, 2025 @09:19AM (#44604355)
From reading your comments, it appears you value physical activity over sedentary activity and disagree with the disease model of addiction because of your own experience and belief system. Frankly, individualized belief systems that don’t exhibit generalizable or interrogatable attributes aren’t very interesting. You’re absolutely free to put up walls around your beliefs and experiences and tell us to keep out, but don’t be surprised when the intellectually curious start knocking on other doors.
Re:People kept working, became healthier while on basic inco... by throaway955 on Thursday July 17, 2025 @10:02PM (#44600447)
making the rich richer in the name of wealth creation? What will we consume without that?