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| | | | | Should it be best if we're all productive/working to our utmost capacity, or merely strive for the point where we no longer need to be productive/work? |
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| | | | Retirement isn't quite like emptying a bottle of water and using it for something else... productivity is very important to all people (even if you're lazy), but retirement is simply the reward you get for soooooooooooooooooooo much pain throughout the working years.
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| | | | | ...avoid the pain and get a job you enjoy. |
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| | | | Not too many people have the energy to get the education/ credibility to get the job they want.
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| | | | Hmm...I fear I may have been not enitrely clear, and may need to further elucidate my original point.
Unfortunately, I wasn't thinking of retirement when I created this discussion. I was thinking of society and its ideals, whether they should be always to work, regardless if it's truly, really needed, or attempt to go for the point where people simply didn't have to work anymore, from birth to death. |
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| | | | | Interesting question. Personaly I feel that there is a need to work. Work makes me feel needed and useful. Without it I think we would become to self absorded. |
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| | | | I cannot imagine living in a society where was unnecessary. Personally, I
go stir crazy without something meaningful to occupy my time. Even if
finances were such that work was not necessary, I would likely work.
Humans require a labor of some sort. To illistrate my point, look at what
some call trustfund babies. They have plenty of money and are in trouble
most of the time. If you have one really talk to you, it is likely to come out
that their trouble stems from boredom and a sense of uselessness. I don't
think society is ready for a world where this is the norm. |
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| | | | "Should it be best if we're all productive/working to our utmost capacity, or merely strive for the point where we no longer need to be productive/work? "
Words like "productive" and "work" in all honesty...are relative.
Ideally...you enjoy what you do. And if you REALLY enjoy it...it hardly constitutes work anyway...regardless of how difficult it may be...how much time it may take...or how much you get paid to do it. I am of the opinion, however, that life is incredibly too short..and as such...I think if you produce/work to your utmost capacity over a long enough period of time...you can't help but reach a point where you're not longer obligated to do it anymore. I think at that point you owe no one anything but yourself...and are entitled to qutie frankly live life as you please. |
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