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There is a trend of the wealthy putting in longer hours than ever and working longer than ever even when they have more than enough money to live comfortably.
This varies by what you consider a lower bound of "wealthy", but at the lower end, comfortable living requires surprising amount of work to maintain.
Doing hard things improves you, but ultimately your personality is largely defined by the time you stop being a child. Industriousness is very much a personality dimension and it is very hard to change. Industriousness is a measure of how satisfied you are doing nothing. Highly industrious personalities are the most prevalent factor with success across the lifespan (in Western economies) and also seem less likely to…
> Industriousness is a measure of how satisfied you are doing nothing Did you mean how unsatisfied you are doing nothing? Because industrious seems to mean "hard-working, diligent, devoted to success".
Every time I hear someone say "life is hard, just push through it, embrace the difficulty", I hope they understand there are different levels of hard. It's absolutely true that if you want to accomplish almost anything you need to endure some levels of suffering. There are a lot of people who just need to hear "quit complaining, quit trying to make it easier, and actually try". There are a lot of people who fail to a…
I’m not surprised that this was written by a self-described serial entrepreneur. It has all the hallmarks of a “capitalism isn’t all that bad, it turned out great for me!” type of view. From a philosophical standpoint I do agree with the author that difficult, deep work is spiritually enriching. But most bullshit jobs that people work for their 9-5 are not that. I think people are not sick of work in general, but rat…
Yep, let’s blame others for our woes
Anecdotal: the richest self made people I know work the hardest, the poorest don't work at all or as little as possible, by choice (state pays). People who inherited wealth are the unhappiest and the people who do well but not enough to be rich (I guess some type of middle class) whine about it all and want to be rich to vacation the rest of their life (but will probably never get there as they never run, just chug a…
>> We become artificial automatons and driven drones. Yeah, those Buddhist monks who don't try to achieve anything and yet are happiest creatures on Earth are indeed drones.
I think you have an inaccurate understanding of what monks do. Also I'm not sure if I'd call monks happy so much as I would content. The better example here is the guy living off of UBI smoking weed and playing video games all day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthieu_Ricard you will never be as happy as this guy
Anecdotal: the richest self made people I know work the hardest, the poorest don't work at all or as little as possible, by choice (state pays). People who inherited wealth are the unhappiest and the people who do well but not enough to be rich (I guess some type of middle class) whine about it all and want to be rich to vacation the rest of their life (but will probably never get there as they never run, just chug a…
>People who inherited wealth are the unhappiest Please. Meet more people or just read a newspaper or book. The rich love to whine about dissatisfaction, but it is in the smallest tier of unhappiness. The stress of dealing with (or putting off) healthcare you need but can't afford, being evicted or having your utilities turned off, watching those around you slowly die to a drug epidemic, living every day in fear of be…
People ultimately accept their situation and work within their circumstances to make things better