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kleinbl00  ·  4026 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Work As We Know It May Be Immoral

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The article above is specious at best - it puts forth as "convincing" some nobody's-ever-heard-of-you AD who lives downtown and pretends to commute everywhere by bus and Metro. So really, the "oh yeah you can save money and time" is really "oh yeah you can save money and spend 5 hours a day on your smartphone but not talking to anyone because there's no wifi in the tunnels."

Nick Redding argues convincingly in Methland that amphetamines are a peculiarly American drug to abuse because they actually push you closer to the ideal American ethic of hard work and success. Not saying he's right, but from a fundamental standpoint, disorder is entropy, entropy is death and doing something is actively pushing the Grim Reaper away. A syllogism that fundamental is not going to just evaporate because some hippie says "work is immoral."