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Record number of Americans are leaving the country and renouncing their citizenship for good, report says
(www.the-independent.com)
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I mean, I don't really care if someone works honestly and gets more. Want to do OT and buy a jet ski? Fine, whatever. Not my preferred avenue but you do you.
What stands out more is the lack of morality. Basically no one seems to care about morals so long as they get theirs. Witness that it took something as simple and stupid as gas prices. That's far more concerning to me from a societal standpoint. We basically have no society because no one cares for anyone past their own nose. That's a huge problem.
Yeah, but that's the thing: when the priority is get rich so you can buy lots of shit, morality becomes a secondary consideration, if it's a consideration at all. Morality, empathy and ethics should be the standard, with exceptional wealth and consumption being the exception, rather than exorbitant wealth and consumption being the goal and morality and empathy being fringe concepts.
It's not just that some people work a few extra hours to earn a jet ski, it's that our culture conditions us to believe that the money and the things are what people should be primarily striving for, and that everything else is unimportant.
I get people wanting to bust their humps and do a bunch of work towards a goal. You want to spend a month just screwing around with your new jetski in the summer and doing OT every week for several months or working a second job for that time will let you do it, I get it. The thing that puts me off is the number of people who see just work and accumulation of stuff as the end goal unto itself. They'll brag about never calling out sick or missing a single day of work, not taking their vacations (or going, but still living in their work inboxes, sending out so many emails they may as well not have gone on one), and saying stuff like "Oh, I could never retire, I wouldn't know what to do with my time, there's nothing to do." And then these people are held up as models that we should aspire to.
I don't care if a job pays me so much that I could afford a dream vacation, jetskis and all the new gadgets every year if I have to be working so much I never even get to do/use any of those things the salary makes possible. I'd much rather take a job with a salary that lets me do fewer of those things, or even having to skip years between one and the next, but lets me clock out and have enough time to myself to take care of myself and pursue hobbies and interests outside of work on a regular basis.