This seems like a stupid question, doesn’t it. We work because we must, because we have to “earn a living”. Right? The economic truth of life is harsh and brutal, and only hard work and sacrifice will provide us with any measure of security or leaisure, right? From a young age we are indoctrinated with the Puritan idea that suffering is required to redeem our “original sin” as human beings and that “hard work” was not only our curse because of this “original sin”, but that hard work is both the main factor in producing material wealth and that it is character building and morally good.
Interest vs. Guilt
In this process of learning to live more deliberately and honestly, one of the questions I have been attempting to answer for myself is why I do the things that I do. What is the motivation for, and the emotion behind, the things that I choose to do and the things I choose to avoid?
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