Get born to rich parents and you can have all that. Case in point: dipshit Elon.
It wouldn’t be like that if we could work on something that makes sense to us. But no, we have to desperately find whatever is valuable enough to some rich dickwad that has no clue and then kiss their ass doing shit poorly their way. My work would be a million times better if my suggestions weren’t always shut down on the basis of “well, I’m above you, and I made this decision before you, so suck it”, especially when it’s a system only I have to interact with and is trivial to remake.
Someone has to work. Someone has to produce. If you don’t want to work and yet reap the rewards off of the backs of others that have have wrought, then you’re no better than a leech. A parasite. A drag on society.
That post is lemmy in a nutshell.
Don’t want to work.
Don’t want responsibilities.
Want to feel good about myself, even with no reason to feel good about myself.
“But capitalism and communism and, and, and, I just want free shit and the billionaires are taking it from me!”
Feels like you’re being intentionally facetious but yeah I pretty much agree with all that. I think the nuance is that most people don’t want to work jobs but would likely occupy themselves with their passions if their basic needs were guaranteed.
Maybe I’m weird but I’ve never in my life had a passion for anything. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had things I’ll be vaguely interested in. But I think certain personalities are more inclined to have passion and other personalities are more inclined to be a bit blasé through life. I’ve always been more of the latter and I know I am not the only one on the planet who is this way.
That doesn’t mean that I’m in a bad spot in life and I’m not interested in changing careers. I have a good job that pays very well and that can be vaguely interesting. For a blasé individual, it’s the best I could hope for lmao.
David Graeber says that half of all jobs are bullshit and completely unnecessary. I wish we could admit it and move on. Life would be so much more fulfilling if there were only half as much work to do.