Yeah, people fearing to be seen as "lazy" is certainly a fair point, what a shame that "fear" doesn't apply to me anymore... 😉😄

> And career development makes them appear higher in some kind of social hierarchy. 

And this.


Well... I kind of think that in your surrounding people don't work that much because they are really addicted to working, but they are afraid others will see them as lazy. And career development makes them appear higher in some kind of social hierarchy. What do you think?

BallLightning

People are people, and I don't think that the "social consensus" will be that much different across "the West".

I'm based in the Netherlands.

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ideasfromtheedge

Who Can Explain To Me The Point Of Work In The Modern Age?

Are you sure this is universal? Where are you from? USA? Most people I know that have office jobs will stop working if they could. People who do manual labor even more.
The only people who I know will continue working the same are artists. End even they I have already noticed stop doing things that they don't like once they have enough security to actually do things they do like.