The typical saying these days that is popular is work smarter not harder.
Why is that? Because in the massive modern society of fraud, exploitation, inequality, cheating, lies, psychological manipulation, and economic disparities working hard is for suckers.
Working hard one finds themselves with heart disease as they get older unable to afford the medical bill as the company they worked for several years got outsourced over seas.
Working hard leaves a older person unemployed as their company they have worked for several years outsources overseas leaving them nothing for retirement or any form of medical insurance in their dying years as they get thrown onto the street homeless.
Working hard nowadays only gets you a temp or part time job making eight dollars a hour when your apart of the working class.
In order to succeed in the modern world you need to have the intelligence that other people need or an ability to lie, cheat, and steal your way to top.
If you can’t or are unable you just end up becoming a dumb hard working laborer making a equally dumb income. Working hard is for suckers.
The concept of earning a living is nothing more than a ruse of by gone days in the past.
Today is all about being lucky enough to have the information or skills necessary to make a nice living and lying one’s way to the top.
In order to survive in modern society well one must learn to be clever and deceptive.
Honest hard work will make you poor all your life and lead yourself to a early grave.
I guess my question would be why you place such value on high salary work, unless your employment is in a field you are passionate about. Honestly, I’ve done a number of archetypal jobs including my current two (construction and AutoCAD), lawn service, and even scrapping–but I’m in a much better mood after a day of cheap, manual labor than half a day of AutoCAD at $16/hr. There is, in my opinion, a certain appeal to just scraping by.
Interestingly I have a survival manual for a zombie apocalypse, I wrote myself. I think it would apply here too.
Be fair though he was shat on from a great height in all his past life’s too, which would probably explain it.
Jobs I have done:
Manual labourer
Ditch digger (and no I am not making that up for effect)
Pot Washer
Labourer, factory
solderer
assembly worker
assembly line worker
Screwing the tops on perfume bottles all day
Loading trucks
Loading and unloading trucks
Medical Equipment Library Assistant
Finance Assistant
F/t carer.
Tomato picker
Strawberry picker
Pepper sorter
Box stacker
Mail room assistant, office grunt.
And frankly a lot more. Best job ever? Mail room assistant, for the reason that the staff were fun and friendly, the boss wasn’t an asshole and most importantly I got to whiz around a naval base on a golf cart delivering mail to the messes and wot not. Pay was about £5 an hour, back when which is pretty minimal, although it was mildly higher than what would be the minimum wage now. Then if you see what I mean.
Work is doing something you enjoy, it’s not about the money. If they paid me to play computer games all day and look at porn etc, I would be living the dream and would probably do it for nothing.
Because he acts like he’s better than the “bad men” he criticises, while also thinking lesser or the “masses” the way you would expect these “bad men” to.
Yes the statists are really good at those. It helps to lube up the metanarrative, so when they get tucked into sleep at night, they are out like a baby all night long.
I think working hard has advantages. It develops you as a person. I’m very competitive so sometimes I turn hard work into a competition and then it’s kind of fun.
Droning on all day at some slave wage job isn’t smart, though.
:D/
