Re:What Dreams May Come
by adventured on Thursday March 13, 2014 @06:07AM
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Has absolutely nothing to do with Capitalism. It's core to existence for any living thing. The need to create value, be productive, acquire food, trade for something, and so on, to sustain one's self. No matter what you are, if you're living, you have to do this, or someone else has to do it for you.
If you live in a society where the government, or church, or ... whatever entity, provides everything for you, that still requires someone else to do work for your benefit so you can exist.
'Creating value' is a capitalist concept, as is 'being productive.
Essentially, all lives are terminal (some just sooner than others). Unless you are a jelly fish. Fucking jelly fishes.
I'd say that worrying about money isn't completely bad thing.
We are driven by our metric for value.
A great many of us feel we're being driven by someone else's metric for value.
I, for one, don't find that a good thing at all.
> It's not a bad thing.
... if your 'metric for value' happens to be high enough.
It's not a bad thing.