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André Gorz predicted the revolt against meaningless work (2023)

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95 points robtherobber | 1 comments | 16 Oct 25 15:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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BenFranklin100 ◴[22 Oct 25 20:41 UTC] No.45674877[source]▶
As people get older, they often come to realize that any job that puts a roof over ones head, food on the table, and allows quality time with friends and family, is meaningful work.
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MDCore ◴[22 Oct 25 21:00 UTC] No.45675086[source]▶
What you're describing is making work useful, not meaningful. More people nowadays are rejecting work that has no meaning, connection to identity and makes no use of their intellect, even if that work is a means of some income.
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BenFranklin100 ◴[22 Oct 25 21:26 UTC] No.45675369[source]▶
What I am describing is something called wisdom.
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messe ◴[22 Oct 25 21:45 UTC] No.45675561[source]▶
Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.
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1. esafak ◴[23 Oct 25 02:41 UTC] No.45677611[source]▶

    Hacker: That's not the point. Look at Latin. Hardly anybody knows that now.
    Humphrey: Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.
    Hacker: What?
    Humphrey: Times change and we change with the times.
    Hacker: Precisely.
    Humphrey: Si tacuisses, philosophus manisses.
    Hacker: What does that mean?
    Humphrey: If you'd kept your mouth shut, we might have thought you were clever.
    Hacker: I beg your pardon?
    Humphrey: Not you, Prime Minister. That's the translation.
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