> People don't really choose to work, we work because we need to afford food and get health care and rent housing

Almost everyone on HN can live to standards that would have been between comfortable and luxurious a hundred years ago, possibly even in a developed country. (The median world wage--assuming a 40-hour work week with 2 weeks off, which is not the median working schedule--is $5/day [1].)

This doesn't undermine the struggle. Just that there is, to varying degrees (but increasingly so among anyone in tech), a choice being made.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/166211/worldwide-median-househo...