Why Americans Care About Work So Much
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Why Americans Care About Work So Much
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#2Work has somehow become part of our identity
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#3Well with the savagely frayed state of the social safety net if you're not born rich, basically if you can't find work in California you're unlikely to get food stamps especially if you are able bodied and healthy otherwise than having the illness of having been born in the US past the date of 1965.
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#4I really want to quit but then who's going to pay for my wife's pregnancy?
Healthcare and mandatory expenses can destroy one's life in America.
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#5Well with the savagely frayed state of the social safety net if you're not born rich, basically if you can't find work in California you're unlikely to get food stamps especially if you are able bodied and healthy otherwise than having the illness of having been born in the US past the date of 1965.
> especially if you are able bodied and healthy
if you're abled bodied, and healthy, why should society bear a burden of giving you resources to live off long term?
To exist means to locate the resources to live (such as food, shelter, etc). These resources can no longer be foraged like in the days of old, and thus, the allocation of these resources must come from a mechanism we call market and employment today.
A social safety net is required, but only in so far as the time it takes to get yourself another job (any job - not just a preferred job). One should not be on social safety net permanently.
However, on the side of medical care, i do believe that universal medical care is more efficient, and cuts out as much middleman as possible.
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#6"Why Americans Care About Food and Shelter"
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#7On the potential downsides of WFH triggering a drawback from workism:
If community means “where you keep showing up,” then, for many people, the office is all that’s left. What happens when it goes the way of bowling leagues and weekly church attendance?
Bowling leagues, churches, meditation centers, hiking groups, tabletop game gatherings, music festivals, etc are alive and well! Becoming isolated from remote work, realizing one's social circle has shrank to professional acquaintances, and then finding true happiness in one of the aforementioned communities could be a net positive. Better than subsisting on a meager diet of water cooler smalltalk until retirement.
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#8I really want to quit but then who's going to pay for my wife's pregnancy? Healthcare and mandatory expenses can destroy one's life in America.
> I really want to quit but then who's going to pay for my wife's pregnancy?
Solution: don’t have kids.
You already knew this beforehand.
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#9I really want to quit but then who's going to pay for my wife's pregnancy? Healthcare and mandatory expenses can destroy one's life in America.
> I really want to quit but then who's going to pay for my wife's pregnancy? Solution: don’t have kids. You already knew this beforehand.
Yep. The only way to live in America is with nihilism.
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#10Well with the savagely frayed state of the social safety net if you're not born rich, basically if you can't find work in California you're unlikely to get food stamps especially if you are able bodied and healthy otherwise than having the illness of having been born in the US past the date of 1965.
> especially if you are able bodied and healthy if you're abled bodied, and healthy, why should society bear a burden of giving you resources to live off long term? To exist means to locate the resources to live (such as food, shelter, etc). These resources can no longer be foraged like in the days of old, and thus, the allocation of these resources must come from a mechanism we call market and employment today. A so…
> A social safety net is required, but only in so far as the time it takes to get yourself another job (any job - not just a preferred job). One should not be on social safety net permanently
Oh you mean get a job now when employers are just collecting resumes for “talent pipelines” they can hire from at some future date, or just to improve morale of their current overworked employees?
And what if you’re an able bodied caretaker for a family member who is ill, disabled, or just elderly?