Money doesn't determine if I work. It helps determine where I work.

Absolutely not, money is not my greatest motivation, but we cannot deny that it is a fairly fundamental piece in the equation.

Why do I work? Because I have expenses to cover, and other mouths to feed apart from mine, I work because I like to live free, and the only way of living really free in this world is with some money to be able to cost the needs or difficulties that arise on the road.

Honestly, before knowing Bitcoin, I worked and lived aimlessly, with the priority in my head of living free, but without knowing how to do it, the best thing I had managed to do, was to stop working for others or for the business of others. But something was missing, that true ability to store value.

Bitcoin resolved that lack, and full of true motivation my life to continue fighting and working for my ideals and my thoughts.

I like helping people and solve problems. I don't think I ever worked for something else, not in my veins.

To make the world more like I want it to be.

No, almost never.

I work do provide value; wield the skills and abilities I have for what (I find) good.

(I mean, I am cheap, and I'll assmilk/do cheap shit for sats, but wooork proper, uh-hu!)

Trying to make the world better place to live for all humans

work for money, money for freedom, freedom of work...

I work for the cold, soulless pieces of paper that I can withdraw from an ATM or occasionally is debited from my bank account, or to send home. The money I earn is in the form of currencies of the countries I work which I try to pool, in the hope that one day I can buy a home, build a small library of books and a space with tools, enjoy a humble existence, read and build to better myself.

I left my home country in the new millennium, once considered to be a country with relatively high living standards. These days, not so much due to demographic changes (continual importation of migrants) and corruption that has engendered the Marxism de jour that destroys the place through the erosion of living standards. The police there seem largely co-opted and serve the wishes of those that steal from the public and are diametrically opposed to the will of the majority of people who make up the country.

The only reason that a home is useful in this regard is to defend myself, my possessions and shelter from the dangers that have been imported into the country, and the lack of political and economic honesty of the ruling class. I didn't have any other option other than to leave family and friends who I grew up with and I miss dearly, and work and learn where I can.

But working for fiat currency and being forced to strategically migrate is the only way I have to achieve this objective. I'd love to volunteer and engage with other things I care more about, but unfortunately that's not currently an option. Some of the people I've worked with are amazing people, genuine, smart and principled, and that's a nice by-product, but really this is just a lucky coincidence that they are in the same position, working in meaningless roles, in order to raise a family, or perhaps for similar reasons as myself.

It’s a fine line, but you do need “money” - whatever form it takes - to exchange later for goods and services. But for me, finding meaningful work is more important. If you enjoy what you do, even when it’s hard or challenging, that sense of meaning tends to carry you through. The money becomes just the outcome of finding your place.

You remind me like for example a father wants to employ his son for free and says you are working with your family so you should not touch money. After a period this son realizes he is wasting time there. There is nothing called because he is your child he must work for free so what about someone other not from your family member. Money is main motivator because every day you go to work you spend money.

It's a good ideal to work towards. When you really enjoy what you're doing it shouldn't feel like work at all.

In the west we might pretend to ignore the "money" part of work. In reality, bills need to be paid.

Most of my time is spent volunteering or working under heavily discounted rates for a cause I find important, so I'd say these are not about the money. But at times, I choose to: I try to not spend too much of my savings so it's nice to have some income sometimes, replenish savings and not having to wake up with a feeling of financial decline.