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Old 05-25-2015, 11:20 PM   #3103 (permalink)
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nah i disagree

ultimately people do jobs because they need money

they need money cause it's the arbitrary medium we set for exchanging goods and services

they need goods and services cause we evolved as systems that are inclined to need & want certain things

the fulfillment and all that is a mechanism of our evolution that drives us to continue the struggle

so really you're trying to muddy the waters but you know i'm right

or maybe you don't, but either way i am
We're not talking about evolutionary psychology (seeing as how you never mentioned it, and didn't frame your argument in those terms until right now). We're just talking conscious motivation. You're moving the goal posts.

The ultimate, deep down motivation for getting a job in the first place may lie in the basic need to obtain resources, but human psychology is far more complicated than that, and defining motivations purely by how it serves survival is lazy and reductive.
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