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Originally posted by Amputate Your Head
ahhh, but no one is being forced to do anything. Everyone working the weekends and neglecting their families is opting into it. They're perfectly free to go live in a cardboard box.
No one ever said freedom as well as personal success or the lack of it, comes with a babysitter or a sugardaddy.
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Sure they're opting in, but is there *really* a choice there? You could walk a nihilist's path and say you could always take the ultimate exit instead of __fill_in_the_blank__ but it doesn't mean these people have any reasonable options.
Being given a choice between 'worse' and 'really fucking worse get ready to die you'll smell really bad before you go cuz you ain't washed for a month' isn't much of a choice.
All that being said, I know this is just sitting up front in my mind cuz I've been working 16 hour days now for a few months and I'm starting to go a little stir crazy wondering wtf it's all for... my choice, such as it is, is "work like a madman to keep my family fed and my contractees happy while letting my body and relationships deteriorate" vs. "live in 'cozy' tar paper shack down by the river amusing myself by pulling the ice from my eyelashes when the temperature dips so low they freeze shut in the night."
