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Seeing work as your purpose was supposed to be the holy grail of work that most people sadly couldn't achieve. Now we just immediately toss that away like a mouldy tomato and what's left? The new highest plane of human existence is working for capitalists to make them more profitable, in exchange for 10% of their profit?

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I suggest reading some philosophy. It seems that we have spent a great deal of energy training people for a vocation, but in the process forgot to educate them.

And you can see this in the desire to eliminate humanities (and math departments) in the current wave of anti-intellectualism sweeping the United States. My own life was greatly helped as a young person by reading existential philosophy, and my son has found his own intrinsic desire to be in school thru a combo of cool old geology professors, cool young philosophy grad students, and real analysis.

It is the same lack of depth of people saying math should just give results and not seek beauty or a life should be to get rich instead of daring to be deeply involved with people and seek to make life joyful and interesting.

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