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“Imagine if we worked less. Imagine if we walked around our communities, talked to our neighbors, spent time in nature, played. Imagine if we could read, write, fall in love, without that nagging feeling of ‘needing to do something’; imagine if your life was your own.”

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

as most of what I do doesn’t add to a better world for anyone

that was the whole premise behind David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs (2018) – when something like 40% of workers consider their own jobs to be useless, pointless, meaningless, unnecessary …

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That book really made me understand why I felt so depressed living well within the mainstream parameters of success.