I might be naive but I think people want to work, just don't want to have a job.
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2026
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People (to make a sweeping generalisation) want to do stuff they're interested in. Sometimes that's a skill that happens to earn you money in the current system. But even if it is, turning your hobby into a job sucks the fun out of it pretty quickly. Since now you're reliant on it to survive.
TLDR the issue is capitalism, as per usual.
Nail on head. I happen to enjoy what I do for a living as a matter of interest and satisfaction, but having it lock me in to a narrow career path at this point sucks most of the fun out of it.
More than that, people want to be useful and valued, which really is the basis for a job (I'm counting parenting as a job here). Some people don't care about that external validation and only want to do interesting stuff but a huuuuge number of people do thrive off that.
Not me tho
The witch got me too 😞
Same here! Any spell to break it?
I can tell you from experience, art school won’t help.
So that’s what happened.
You weren't cursed with laziness.
You were cured of loving capitalism.
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I felt the same until I got injured on the job. While I was off someone pointed me at a book called 'Discover What You Are Best At.' Linda Gail.
It pointed me at a job that I actually enjoyed doing. I didn't feel it was a burning passion, but I did feel pretty good at the end of the day.
Curse?