| ▲ | golemiprague a day ago | ||||||||||||||||
I won't work if I don't need money, don't want to better myself or others, I know many other people who are just like me. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | somenameforme 20 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
I thought this as well, then found myself in the situation of not needing to work and found that, after some period of hedonism, it became quite empty. I think in the past it was easier for more people to experience this. We had less 'stuff' but much larger families and lived in generally more social systems. Those mitigate a lot of the coercive extrinsic pressures to work. And I think this is why philosophy, especially personal philosophy trending towards self betterment, was so much more prevalent in the past. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | game_the0ry 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Aspire to at least leave the world better than you found it, so it is a little better when you are gone. | |||||||||||||||||