Or maybe I’m just a realist who understands that you can’t operate a functioning society while letting everybody just do whatever the f**k they want.
You're far from a realist,
@Outcast9428. Especially if you believe a capitalist society represents anything close to a functioning society. A society which values paper with dead people's faces on more than human life is dysfunctional. Our society is not civilised at all and lacks in basic values.
Why shouldn't people be able to do whatever they want? Why should you or I be made to work 40+ hours a week by virtue of some technocratic asshole who monopolised all the resources? If work was automated and the necessary work was shared out equally among able bodied people then everyone would have more time for their passions and to invest in their relationships with other human beings. Instead people become estranged and compartmentalised through toxic ideologies such as the promotion of the soulless proletariat work ethic.
My workplace can’t do shit. It took one guy not showing up to work 20 times over the course of about 4 or 5 months before he got fired. If I told them that I can’t come to work on a holiday they are going to let me because there’s nothing they can do. They don’t have people who can easily replace me. I don’t ever work on holidays. That includes Halloween, I took the day off for Halloween.
I don't have much interest in your anecdotal experiences in the workplace. Again you are taking your own personal experience, in this case your work place in particular, and applying it to every person and every work place. Not everyone works for the same company as you. Not everyone has the luxury of being able to dictate to a corporation when they take time off. It's an employers market and everyone is easily replaced. This is how employers have people by the short and curlies. Some companies even threaten their employees for posting particular points of view on their own social media pages and all the rest of it.
I cannot believe half the shit people get away with nowadays. Anyone claiming the modern workforce is some slave labor system that works people half to death and exerts all this power and control over everybody’s lives is either being deliberately dishonest or they work in an unusually stressful career path.
Or they're just not a slave soul NPC who values the soul destroying work ethic. This is the problem. Ignorance and those who push their misguided moral notion of hard work being a virtue onto everyone else. People who don't like this lifestyle are expected to shut the f**k up and tow the line, right?
I think to try and rationalise the proletariat work ethic as something which is moral and virtuous is what is dishonest. To pretend the system isn't zero sum game is ignorant and naive. So, working from 18 years old until you're an old man and your physical and mental health are exhausted isn't being worked to death? All the focus and pressure to "perform" at work like an automaton is f***ing soulless. It's little wonder suicide rates are sky high as this kind of life has no meaning for sensible people.
I’m not an NPC, I just know how the world works and I’ve accepted it. I’m not saying you have to love your job. I feel frustrated with it often. But it gives me decent enough money which is good enough for now. It’s not the best situation but I do think people are being whiny when they act like this is the worst thing ever.
Quite frankly I strongly prefer working over school.
I think the kind of person that supports this kind of system is a quintessential NPC. It seems that you are happy to toil away like a slave for a living, and you erroneously correlate that lifestyle with some objective moral value. In reality it is immoral this system.
Flourishing of the individual and allowing people time to cultivate themselves and invest time into building relationships and being authentically free is what would steer society more towards and semblance of being "functional". Modern work culture is just clandestine slavery, it's just that most people are too blind to recognise it.
You are free to make any decision you desire, but you are not free from the consequences of those decisions.