• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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    City vs. Country

    Red vs. Blue

    Type A vs. Work to Live

    Homed vs. Homeless

    White collar vs. Blue collar

    Etc

    It’s a shame the divide and conquer routine works so well.

    Keep the peasants hating and rooting against one another so hard, they never look up at their common enemy. Credit where it’s due, insatiably greedy owner class, you have us dead to rights. You keep us so busy working and hating one another, we’ll never organize against your tiny population of manipulators betraying your own species and turning it into your personal livestock.

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        Type As are the people that kill themselves at work and show frustration at those that don’t. The annoying true believers of the workplace. They live for “that grind culture,” and in many to most cases, brag about the toll it’s taken on their personal lives if they still have one. Their sense of self is tied to their job.

        People who work to live are just that. They don’t derive their sense of self of life’s purpose from their job. They do what they have to for their pay check and leave.

        For this, Type As often mock them as lazy, while work to liver’s mock type A’s intensity and values.

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          The annoying true believers of the workplace.

          The obedient house slaves. “Stop fighting for your rights, you’ll get us all killed! If you would just be more obedient they might let you live in the big house too!”

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          As a “work-to-live” person Type As are my natural enemy. If I’ve got a meeting before noon some Type A person is the culprit.

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            Ah see, as another work-to-liver I try to schedule my meetings before lunch so I can fuck around after lunch.

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          Hah, here I was about to say there is some grey area in there, but the reality is that if I didn’t have to work to maintain my standard of living, I fucking wouldn’t

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            People have become so brainwashed by this ancient fucking industrial age myth of working that they think this shit is still valid hundreds of years later.

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          Ah, I see what you mean. Work to survive makes more sense to me as a term for that than work to live, but to each their own.

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            But it’s “work to live” not just survive. You spend the rest of the time on living. Whether that’s fishing, hunting, crocheting, watching football, playing games, or something else. Enough money to do what you want to.

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              Yeah, that’s what we all do, we just work all day then we come home and go hunting, fishing, kayaking, trekking through the desert, that’s how things work, and thank god they do right.

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              I interpret work to live as the reason I work is to live. That implies working is necessary to live. Which is simply not true in our modern day society. Some people don’t have to work.

              I could see how someone could easily misinterpret “work to live” as deriving their sense of self of life’s purpose from their job. That is the opposite of what is meant by it. It is so close semantically to the exact opposite philosophy of “living to work”.

              Working to survive, on the other hand, implies that your only there because you are forced to be to survive.