I wanna quibble with this just a little bit. People work. Left to their own devices, with their needs met, people will dedicate their energy toward generating value.
What no one wants to do is a job, which is an arrangement by which several of us have to do more in exchange for less so one of us can do nothing all day and then complain that “nobody wants to work anymore”.
If left to my own devices, I’ll generate art. I give it away and almost never sell it. A lot of it is bad art and has no value.
Nah dude, it is only “bad” and “has no value” in this capitalist economy. Keep making art, it is valuable.
Thanks! I’ve never let it bother me. I make funky stuff for my own amusement. I go by the horseshoe theory that priceless is the same as worthless on the ‘value’ scale. Maybe it’s more like an ouroboros than a horseshoe? Anyway, I’m not afraid of making things for the “art bin”, I make it to exercise the idea.
I love doing art for just for the sake of it
I love it when people describe things by their function to pull the rug out from under the label people who bastardize meaning!
Very well put.
I always like to say that I love my job, but I hate my boss and my stupid colleagues because they always seem to be getting in the way OF DOING MY FUCKING JOB. In 2023 it seems like work is more like a highschool popularity contest rather than about giving value to the company.
So in practice, I hate working. But it was never about the job. The narcissists are the ones ruining it.
We have fed you all for a thousand years, for that was our doom you know
From the days where you chained us in your fields, to the strike of a week ago
Open source exists where often nobody gets payed
There are plenty of reasons to work for “free” in FOSS. Having contributed to a valued project looks great on a CV, and sometimes it’s just for passion.
If you can’t afford me at my worst, you can’t afford me at my best.
If you can’t afford me at my price, you can’t afford me in the feels.
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