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I actually enjoy my work, most of the time, sue me.

I guess getting an education in what you like and are good at while it's in demand by the market is kinda lucky though.

This person is just describing the psychological factors underpinning self-determination theory as it applies to work but without the language to convey it: https://selfdeterminationtheory.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2017_DeciOlafsenRyan_annurev-orgpsych.pdf

Depends on what we call work. Food in nature is free in the economic sense, but spending time and effort gathering it can be considered work as well, and maybe isn't as joyful as we can expect, especially when doing it for the 3427th time, and when it hasn't regrown since last time we collected, so we need to go further of find alternate sources.

I like to put a clear distinction on what is work in the broader sense, and what is capitalist work. We don't need capitalist work to live, and we would be better without it, but some form of daily struggle to maintain ourselves, we will probably always have, unfortunately.

Food production is at an all time high and yet food prices and food waste is insane. It is 100% price gouging. They would rather waste massive amounts of food and ruin topsoil and insist on shrinkflation instead of sacrificing a few dollars.

People for the last twelve thousand years: "Hunting and gathering cannot support the needs of a growing population. We should create a system where crops can be grown efficiently and in high quantities, and animals can be bred and raised. It will be labour-intensive and require specialized knowledge, skills, and equipment, it will lead to the economic stratification of society, but it's the best way to not have most of our people starve to death."

One guy who recently read the Communist Manifesto (abridged version): "But food is literally free!"

I think a big reason why work feels bad is because in many jobs the surplus value of your labor is being stolen by the executives. When you put in effort to personal projects that feels good because you are actually getting to reap the rewards of your labor.

People like doing stuff that's useful, not just for ourselves but for others as well. What we don't like is being exploited.

Housing is basically free as well. Have you seen caves!?

We've extended our population far beyond what "remove the fences and weapons and let everyone scavenge" could support.

Personally I think people who didn't contribute to that problem should get to scavenge whatever they want, though.

/c/im14andthisisdeep

food is literally free until someone builds a fence around it and guards it with weapons

This is the violence inherent in the system.

This person has never heard of the tragedy of the commons

Lol without agriculture you would literally end up eating shit and dying.

Berry picker mentality

First, the fact that labor is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore, he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and ruins his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself. He feels at home when he is not working, and when he is working he does not feel at home. His labor is therefore not voluntary, but coerced; it is forced labor. It is therefore not the satisfaction of a need; it is merely a means to satisfy needs external to it. Its alien character emerges clearly in the fact that as soon as no physical or other compulsion exists, labor is shunned like the plague. External labor, labor in which man alienates himself, is a labor of self-sacrifice, of mortification. Lastly, the external character of labor for the worker appears in the fact that it is not his own, but someone else’s, that it does not belong to him, that in it he belongs, not to himself, but to another. Just as in religion the spontaneous activity of the human imagination, of the human brain and the human heart, operates on the individual independently of him – that is, operates as an alien, divine or diabolical activity – so is the worker’s activity not his spontaneous activity. It belongs to another; it is the loss of his self.

-- Marx