On our Relationship With Work
There’s something to be said about the way we view work today. Work is glorified in today’s culture by “influencers” like Gary Vee and billionaires telling people that if they’re not working they’re wasting their time.
“Success” has become a mainstay, a toxic one at that, in people’s vocabularies. I want to make it, I want to be successful. In today’s view of work, people will lose their mind seeking capital sustainability over emotional sustainability and physical health in order to reach their desired successful life. More often than not their efforts are in vain.
The phenomena of hustling, of grinding away, burning the midnight oil for a chance at riches is eating away at a vast chunk of the population.
More often than not, people fall into a “hustle” mindset. Working 9 to 5, only to come home and work on a side project for the rest of the day, cutting out the portion of the day that could be used to relax or spend time with loved ones. Justifying it with flawed notions of work being something to enjoy rather than a responsibility.
The death of the hobby came along with the rise of a dollar driven society. A hobby was meant to fill the free time we had outside of working a miserable job for most of the week, but under modern day capitalism, a hobby is just an opportunity, just something to profit off of.
To attract people into this hustle mindset, to indoctrinate them from a young age, millionaires will go so far as to put a ten year old child on stage and have them say that they “can’t wait to work…can’t wait to have a real job, to have responsibilities.” I don’t know about you, but nothing makes me want to seize the day like a millionaire’s kid giving me an inspirational speech about work. How does that silver spoon taste?
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