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I would rather be dead than work only 2 hours a day...

Well, you don't spend the rest of your time drooling, you know. You volunteer, get politically active, take care of others, cook and garden, get exercise and sunshine, chat with friends and family, do creative projects, clean, do small repairs, read, write, learn things. I stayed home with my kids for 10 years and was never bored.

I'll summarize that, if I may: there can be a life outside work.

Some of those things sound more like work than actual work :)

That's part of the propaganda. "Idk what I'd do without my job". It's not hard to come up with productive activities that aren't sitting in an office. I mean it's not trivial, but neither is spending 40 years of your life scraping for one more rung on the ladder.

Don't get me wrong im usually bored when I'm out of work. But that's more because when I'm not working I also don't have money to do other meaningful things.

No time for interesting projects while working... No money for interesting projects while not working...

Well, at least learning languages is both cheap and not very time consuming ( although more time is always better ). But in terms of years it's still a long time.

For some (many?) people working is more enjoyable than the things you listed. There's nothing wrong with that.

IME not working and working in the range of 20, 40, and 60 hour weeks, around 35-40 is the sweet spot for me.

Uhm... What?

I'd be happy working (making profit for someone else, and getting a tiny portion of it) 0 hours a day.

I've projects, ideas, experiments, and entertainment I would much rather be doing than 40h/week . I want live and do, not toil for some indifferent capitalist.

You've confused employment with work.

the article has the word 'workism' in the title. i believe it's extremely disingenuous to be a pedant here.

Youve confused pedantry with meaningful conversation ;)

This comment explains why no one agrees with your previous comment.

You are using the term "work" differently than EVERYONE else here.

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