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Most people don't have the luxury of finding joy and meaning in their work. You aren't hired to have fun, you're hired to create value and wealth for your employer. Just do what literally everyone else does and grind through it until you get a pension and hope it's enough to let you die with a bit of dignity.

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Here in stupid town we stab ourselves with knives. It hurts and we get infections but everybody does it. We don't even remember why we do it any more but we do so you have to as well.

The real problem is the amount of value that gets left on the table.

Also, mental health is just as much a part of health and well-being as the physical.

We know why we do it. We do it because we live under a system that requires most of us to bleed for our supper. And now tech is being normalized to work like every other job, and techies get to feel the knife. A lot of people are going to be shocked to realize what their actual relationship to capital has always been.

If we know, why would a lot of us be shocked? Seems contradictory.

That's probably too much a troll so while I get that you are grinding your anti-capitalism axe, you're also seeding hopelessness and trapped falsely fatalistic thinking. It has gone this way but it doesn't have to and the whole arrangement is a local optimum with much higher global optima available.

In fact there are many of us who have created a parallel life and extend ladders all the time (within our capacity) for others to join us.

That is definitely not what everybody else does. Some people try harder to find the things that they enjoy doing that provide value to others.

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