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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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Work is exactly the place where I discovered that I don't want to work anymore.
Lots of people say that they want to work, but then, when they accumulate enough money to retire, not only do they stop working, but they throw a fucking party to celebrate the fact that they're not working anymore.
So anyways, if you throw a party when you stop doing something, and nobody asks, "Why are they throwing this party? It's nonsensical," then it's all a big lie and everybody secretly knows it. They just don't want to say it and stand out from their group.
Once people retire they often create their own work to do. And often the people who do stuff like volunteer live longer than people who don't.
People like doing work, but they don't like being exploited.
This is a correlation, which may not truly imply causation.
For example, I think it's pretty well-established that sedentary people don't live as long as people who are active. But if a person is a sedentary type, they'll probably make different post-retirement choices than an active type of person. So, when you look at the studies that make conclusions based on volunteering, the results may appear to show a difference, but they might only show the same difference we already know about sedentary vs. active types of people.
Ditto for church attendance leading to longevity, but only because unhealthy people can't make it in.
That said, I think the research on leading e a life with purpose and social connections as having better outcomes is fairly robust. Plenty of seniors kill themselves within a few years of retirement.
This is just my experience. I enjoy that the effort I have to give goes to doing something I find rewarding on a self-actualizing level. I live in a capitalist system, I have to make money to live in it. But the pay is secondary as long as I can meet my basic needs. It’s be cool if I could self-actualize in other areas of my life/desires without having to sacrifice that to take a “pay-cut” to do a job I love, and I’ll keep fighting for that, but this is the point in history I’m living. We realize the system prioritizes the idea that more time/effort investment now pays out in income early, then you can spend your waiting years doing whatever you want. It doesn’t acknowledge that no one knows if they’ll live long enough to get there, or what the economy will be if/when you do. I might live to 100, I might die tomorrow. I could try and find a job that would earn enough tomorrow to finance the idea I spend the last 40yrs of my life living without having to “work”. But I’d rather spend my days doing what I enjoy doing covering my basic needs until the day I die, whenever that comes, than both resenting what I’m doing and only doing it in the hope someday I never had to do it and lived carefree, knowing I could easily die without ever self-actualizing. Live the reality you want to live while making due with the reality you’re forced to endure, but don’t live shit for one that might never come no matter how hard you sacrifice your now for.
The value of money and the future aren’t real, only the time you have moment to moment are; use it the best you can and hopefully your choices result in actual reward.