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How come people want to work? (literature.cafe)

submitted 1 day ago by Karl@literature.cafe to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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As someone who is going to have to get a job in 2-3 years, I'm dreading the day. Going to the same place 5 days a week coming home with no time and energy left for anything you actually like and doing this for FOURTY years or even more if you were unlucky, sounds HORRIBLE!! How could anyone actually like working?

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[–] TheDoctorDonna@piefed.ca 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't want to work in order to survive but I want to be productive and keep my mind and body sharp while also contributing to the community. I like my job and while it seems mundane, it keeps me busy, gives me routine, gives my brain problems to solve, and is sometimes the most socializing I get. I just hate that I have to be afraid to lose my job or end up hungry or homeless because of it.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just hate that I have to be afraid to lose my job or end up hungry or homeless because of it.

it's not an accident that you've come to see it this way; controlled dissent and manufactured fear are effective ways at keeping a population under control.

[–] TheDoctorDonna@piefed.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's why I'm a communist, but most people are afraid of that term. I would settle for really good socialism in my lifetime though.

I hate being stuck as a wage slave creating wealth for the people standing on my shoulders, but I like to work and I like my job, it's a strange place to exist.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

same here; except i'm not a marxist (yet) and i've traded in my labor aristocracy slave status for a non-profit driven workplace that comes with union protections.

watching my union get their collective ass handed to them by starbucks; and others; makes it's clear that union protection doesn't mean much, but it's the best i think i can get in this country.