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It honestly depends on the person. I have talked a t length about this on SA but I am lifer ditch-digger and am 100% OK with that because people need my services and my perverse sense of accomplishment comes from helping people get useless poo poo. When I was unemployed for months on end, it was the closest of suicide idealization I've ever come. And I have poo poo to do. Tons. I have poo poo that has been planning for decades to do and I didn't do any of it because I was too paralyzed with hating myself for not contributing to society and living off of my savings and goodwill. I had nothing to wake up for, not even to volunteer. However, now that I am heavily employed - I want to finally do things. My free time is suddenly insanely valuable and I use it as such, and I take much bigger pleasure in things when I have a deadline. It's my antidepressant, considering I can't afford drugs. It keeps my brain basically 'happy' for lack of a better word. To quote Mr. McCormik from South Park: "Weekends are meaningless when you are unemployed." My only issue with my lifestyle is other people have issues with it. A lot of people look down at me for willingly being a cog and would probably prefer I never get paid at all. Not surprising, I work way, way more hours than most of these people for a quarter of their pay. Something that can immediately help with America's attitude towards labor is uncoupling health insurance from employment. For a lot of people, if you aren't working, you don't deserve to see a doctor. Besides a 'loving poors/my taxes' attitude - I think that entirely stems from a weird, oppressive education system that encourages a worldview of Creators vs. Parasites and no grey areas. I should know, I am a product of it - not working literally sadbrains me and makes me feel like A Bad American That Don't Deserve Anything Good. That can't be healthy.
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