But in general I'd say: don't feel pressure to be productive during this 'downtime'. There are more important things right now than learning now skills. ;-)
I'd just like to remind other readers not to feel pressured to be productive during their downtime. Many of you won't have this much free time until your retirement. It's okay to enjoy it however you see fit.
It's not a direct response to this article, but to this general trend of seeing free time as a thing that must be optimised and turned into economic opportunities.
> Many of you won't have this much free time until your retirement.
What a shame.
Why do we work five days a week until we're old and getting ready to die? It's not like the time before or after work is enjoyable. At least it isn't for me.
So we only get two days a week for ourselves, mostly to catch up with chores we couldn't complete in the other five days.
>Why do we work five days a week until we're old and getting ready to die?
Capitalism requires us trade our labor for the compensation necessary to buy food, clothing and shelter until we're old and our labor is no longer worth anything to the market.
Also, because of the Jewish Sabbath, and later because of unions and labor laws, since the norm used to be a seven day workweek[0].
The secret is to turn what you like doing in your free time into something profitable. Many of us on here love to code and do it in our spare time. We also do it for a living. You can even guide the work you do at your job by speaking up.
I think it's obvious given the context of this thread that by "work" I meant labor traded for financial compensation as the means of procuring food and shelter through the marketplace, not work in the sense of literal physical activity.
And in that sense, capitalism is the only system in which that is required.
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[ 35.5 ms ] story [ 45.5 ms ] threadIt's quite fun and keeps you a bit busy.
But in general I'd say: don't feel pressure to be productive during this 'downtime'. There are more important things right now than learning now skills. ;-)
It's not a direct response to this article, but to this general trend of seeing free time as a thing that must be optimised and turned into economic opportunities.
What a shame.
Why do we work five days a week until we're old and getting ready to die? It's not like the time before or after work is enjoyable. At least it isn't for me.
So we only get two days a week for ourselves, mostly to catch up with chores we couldn't complete in the other five days.
We need four day work weeks.
Capitalism requires us trade our labor for the compensation necessary to buy food, clothing and shelter until we're old and our labor is no longer worth anything to the market.
Also, because of the Jewish Sabbath, and later because of unions and labor laws, since the norm used to be a seven day workweek[0].
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workweek_and_weekend#History
And in that sense, capitalism is the only system in which that is required.