I might be naive but I think people want to work, just don't want to have a job.
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2026
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People (to make a sweeping generalisation) want to do stuff they're interested in. Sometimes that's a skill that happens to earn you money in the current system. But even if it is, turning your hobby into a job sucks the fun out of it pretty quickly. Since now you're reliant on it to survive.
TLDR the issue is capitalism, as per usual.
More than that, people want to be useful and valued, which really is the basis for a job (I'm counting parenting as a job here). Some people don't care about that external validation and only want to do interesting stuff but a huuuuge number of people do thrive off that.
Not me tho
Nail on head. I happen to enjoy what I do for a living as a matter of interest and satisfaction, but having it lock me in to a narrow career path at this point sucks most of the fun out of it.
The witch got me too 😞
Same here! Any spell to break it?
I can tell you from experience, art school won’t help.
So that’s what happened.
You weren't cursed with laziness.
You were cured of loving capitalism.
Curse?
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I felt the same until I got injured on the job. While I was off someone pointed me at a book called 'Discover What You Are Best At.' Linda Gail.
It pointed me at a job that I actually enjoyed doing. I didn't feel it was a burning passion, but I did feel pretty good at the end of the day.