As some wag put it: "Work is something so horrible that people will pay you to do it for them."
Stepping off the hedonic treadmill is a choice.
Not being a natural born hustler is Ok.
Stepping off the hedonic treadmill is a choice.
Not being a natural born hustler is Ok.
Though I don't disagree that "lying flat" is any better.
It seems it's just really hard to get honest discussions out of people when no one wants to be wrong and everyone wants to be the right one. I don't think people mean this in a very conscious way, it's just an emergent property of the hustle culture and capitalism.
One sees this when a person asks a sequence of seemingly simple questions which elicit responses of dismissal until the sequence ends where the question asker basically realizes no one actually knows the answer despite all the answers given.