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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I prefer "lemmings," and I love you. Work of the sort we do is an instrument to create money. Nothing more. If you want to trick yourself into thinking its an end unto itself, go ahead. But don't get all uppity on me when I tell you you're full of fucking shit and force you to reconsider your position and realize just how fucking stupid you are when you say things like "I really love practicing law and would do it even if I hit the lottery." That kind of idiotic shit talk insults the rest of the people in the conversation. Kid yourself, but don't insult me by assuming I'm as stupid as you are.
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Oh, I think there are really people out there who not only believe it, but for whom it is true. Not the bulk of people who would say it (or think it), but a few.
Then I feel sad that our society is so messed up that it doesn't get those people the help they so desperately need.
I remember reading, somewhere, in some survey someone conducted of lottery winners, more than a quarter insisted, at the time they won, that they would keep working. At the end of 1 year almost none of them were, and the most common explanation for their changed attitude was "what was I thinking?"
