Why are we still working this hard?

Re:Why are we still working this hard? by madaxe_again on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:31PM (#50458987)

I am a rentier, an investor. I haven’t worked in any conventional sense for over a decade now, and I keep getting richer.

The system is rigged. I pay less in tax than someone earning a quarter of my income through their labour. It isn’t fair. It wasn’t fair when I worked, and it isn’t fair now - and that’s why I absolutely incinerated my 20s on the pyre of 60 hour weeks, year-round, as I realised that working for a living is a fucking trap, and only by living like a hermit, working like a slave, and getting really damn lucky can you climb out of the crab bucket.

It only gets more unfair the richer you get. I only need to increase my worth by about another 30%, and then I pay no taxes at all.

I do compensate through altruism and charity, but equally, I could choose not to - and again, it is not fair that I have that luxury.

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Re:Why are we still working this hard? by an0malous on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:43PM (#50459118)

I don't think that in itself is even bad if you see society on a road where one day no one has to perform labor anymore and some people get there earlier than others but the system is fair. The problem is that the system is not fair and routinely rigged for the investor class.

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