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Old 09-04-2019, 09:03 PM   #2976 (permalink)
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Honestly I know this is a foreign concept to you but if you just keep throwing more and more money at someone then that eventually gets pretty expensive and people don't have any incentive to earn their own income.
Honestly I think this is a partially bogus argument. I work ****ing fast food with people you'd imagine would give the least ****s, and while they do, they generally have the infuriating quality of valuing their productivity as a badge of honor, at least on some level. Tell them that they have a worthless job and they're liable to start getting offended no matter how depressing it is to have to get satisfaction from being good at constructing "hamburgers" on the world's least impressive assembly line. People are tied to their self-worth derived from work to a degree that isn't rational. Even I find myself taking pride in this or that bull**** achievement or piece of praise at work sometimes and I hate it.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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