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snowflaker wrote: » If they weren't working they would notice the effect very quickly.
Ulysses Gaze wrote: » Of not having cash, yes absolutely.
wally1990 wrote: » http://extra.ie/news/irish-news/family-of-ten-were-on-too-much-welfare-to-get-a-home A couple whose sole income from welfare payments totals €48,000 have taken a court case over getting pushed off the waiting list for a council house after having their eighth child
Solomon Pleasant wrote: » Anyway, work your life away while the founder becomes rich Entrepreneurship is honestly the only viable solution that I can see as I don't see a life on social welfare as particularly fulfilling either.
AidoEirE wrote: » Work to live not live to work.
LadyMacBeth_ wrote: » I'm considering the option of becoming a morbidly obese cam girl who gets paid to eat and sit on men. Sounds like a dream come true to be honest :pac:
screamer wrote: » The founder took risks to try and make it... Many try and many fail. Perhaps when you have a job you'll see that there's a trade off....... High risk high reward or high failure rate as a self employed "entrepreneur".... Or be an employee with less risk less reward and guaranteed wages in the bank every month. Owing your own business is no walk in the park despite what you may believe.
Solomon Pleasant wrote: » Young and bitter or realistic and future focused?
SwD wrote: » Do we live to work or work to live. That is the question.
snowflaker wrote: » and of feeling without purpose in their life, and a sense of self worth.
eeguy wrote: » They are not mutually exclusive. If they were then everyone would quit their job once they made enough to live on.
Ulysses Gaze wrote: » Which could of course be substituted by raising family, improving yourself through study. Why do those things you mentioned need to revolve around work?
AidoEirE wrote: » I need cash to live, so if its a 39 hour week to do that and have everything paid im happy.
SwD wrote: » I think its called Retirement.
SwD wrote: » Its really about utilising your free time. You can't complain about not living if you finish work and spend the evening chomping on caramel Freddos, watching Netflix.
eeguy wrote: » Really? Why does Warren Buffet work, or Mark Zuckerberg? Maybe they like their jobs. Plenty work on beyond retirement. Plenty are forced to retire against their wishes.
snowflaker wrote: » Chocolate Freddos ftw
eeguy wrote: » Why are you committed to working a job you don't like? Why don't you do something you enjoy? I firmly believe that people need a purpose, men especially. So many stories of men who withered away after retirement with no purpose left. That's what makes Men's shed such a great outlet. The happiest people I know are those who make or create things or solve problems.
Irish Praetorian wrote: » Notwithstanding the question of living on welfare (or put another way, people living off the collective work of the rest of society) I find the notion of 'work' as a concept invented by capitalism/modern life as a rather absurd one. Humans have always had to scrabble around in the dirty to find sustenance and shelter, never mind the kind of luxuries we have today. There's no escaping the necessity of struggling for your existence (unless of course you are lucky enough to be born into a situation where you have enough capital accrued) so that just leaves the question of how our society organizes who does and doesn't work and how we arrange the kind of work that is to be done.
timthumbni wrote: » Would that be taxable????
SwD wrote: » Variety is the spice of life.
