[mouzogu]

reminds me of this charles bukowski quote

> “It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”

[slothtrop]

He asks this rhetorically, but some people get something out of it - the hustle and bustle, and of course brushing alongside co-workers. If there's money to be made it's because people want something and buy it.

But really, money is motivation enough

[Jiro]

If work was enjoyable, people would do it for free. And if someone else would do it for free, nobody's going to pay you for it.

[Sohcahtoa82]

> If work was enjoyable, people would do it for free.

If work was enjoyable, and their bills were still getting paid.

Can we stop pretending that the overwhelming majority of people aren't working because they have to?

[slothtrop]

Who "has to"? The meth tweaker on the street still eats every day. But participating in society is a vector validation/belonging and cash for other niceties.