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This should be super obvious. Too many people who don't do what I want and also stop me from doing what I want. You'd have to be a Zen master or something to not be ticked off by that over time. OTOH, that's why it's called work and you get payed for it.

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In theory you don’t get paid to do something you don’t like, you get paid for producing something of value.

So in theory you can still be paid, and not do something you hate

So...maybe it's that there's a lot of jobs where nothing of value is produced? Or at least, nothing of value to the employee, only to the owners?

Yea I’m sure there’s plenty of jobs where nothing of value is produced.

Think about all the startups that fail. People work really hard for two years, and then the whole thing fails with nothing to show for it.

In the grand scheme of things, no value was created, even though each day the people worked, value was created.

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