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> maybe a realization that you don't need all of your wealth to be secure

Then why wouldn't I just stop working? Why bother working at all if I'm guaranteed to be subsidized by other people?

To give your life a purpose? To do something meaningful and fulfilling? To build something cool? To be able to afford additional, cooler things? To work on a common mission with likeminded people? To contribute something back to the system? To experience how things work in the background? To have a sense of ownership over your productive output?

And if you wanna express yourself creatively or just do nothing for a while, that's fine by me too! I'm sure you'd get bored after a while and want to make yourself useful again, so I don't think you should starve in the meantime.

Oh yeah I forgot that's why I deal with insane corporate administrative bullshit to write bad software that solves problems only generated because of the scale of the internal social interactions: because it gives my life meaning.

You have hobbies and personal relationships to give your life meaning, you pay to be allowed to do that not the other way around.

> You have hobbies and personal relationships to give your life meaning, you pay to be allowed to do that not the other way around.

And why don't you want to turn that around?

I'm sure people who, idk, have to clean up office toilets, do it because it's meaningful and fulfilling.

But most people clean their own toilets in their house.

That's our point. The limit of this is no serious social collaboration. You can't have cities, you can't have industry, everyone lives in small tribal villages until they get run over by other industrious people.

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