What I don't get it is why people work so hard against their own wants and needs, yet thinking this will benefit them in the end. Seriously, what's the point of working to be in a position to work even harder and make even more money when by working harder, you'd have even less time to spend it therefore voiding the whole process you worked to do in the beginning and you still won't have any social life where most of your money is likely to go to besides necessities which aren't as necessary as most people make them out to be, and pay taxes to the government, whose 1984-esque like shady behavior in the classic sense of the book will most likely spend it on the war effort which in turn will go to absolutely nothing and just go to show that you are just a mere tool of the government and working class and you're worthless to them, and you won't realize any of that until you get too old to do anything, and then you'll regret everything you've done and realize that you were just playing along with what everyone wanted and you not knowing why they wanted it and why the world worked this way, which in turn will void the whole point of life? Very confusing to me.
lol. I think somewhere in there is the desire for an adequate level of financial stability. After all, the government doesn't take ALL your money. I'm personally not working my butt off for monetary gain, but I'm hoping to make some kind of impact on this world (small as it may be) in this sesame seed among 6.5 billion others that is my life.
I think there are two reasons people work very hard to make money.
1. They enjoy their work, and they enjoy working hard. As a result, the extra exertion that they do is a reward in and of itself, and it doesn't matter that they won't be able to truly enjoy the fruits of their labor for a long time.
2. Making money provides financial stability, and when those people have enough money, they can retire, live comfortably, and not worry about ever having to do any work again.
Sorry if I made that sound a little wordy. It's just that I recently finished reading 1984, and I've had extensive discussions about the said subject with a particular co-worker of mine. I've come to the conclusion that there's a lot more to the world than meets the eye to most people, and how we might be living in our little 1984 dimension of our own. I mean, just think about it.
Time is money. People work for money, then spend this money for more time. It's a vicious cycle I suppose. Maybe Marx was right, erm... or Lenin. Damn Capitalism :P.
Time is money. People work for money, then spend this money for more time. It's a vicious cycle I suppose. Maybe Marx was right, erm... or Lenin. Damn Capitalism :P.Locke562
That's Marx talking. Lenin was all 'Bread for the people, death to the Czar, abolish Capitalism, long live the Motherland, etc. etc.'
Has anybody read The Stranger by Albert Camus? I had to read it for school. EDIT: My current stack right now is : Survivor. The Fountainhead. The Plague.
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