On: Quit your job

[redorb]

Life is too short to work at a job you hate, but everyone has to do something someone else is willing to pay them for.

[skmurphy → redorb]

This is brilliant. Can you please contact me (I can't figure out how to reach you from your comments and profile) and let me know who I should attribute it to: it's a succinct insight that I would like to quote properly.

[redorb → skmurphy]

added contact information to my profile, the name of the man would be Sid Emmert

[ggruschow → redorb]

> everyone has to do something someone else is willing to pay them for.

Subsistence farming - grow your own crops and eat them.

Banditry - take someone else's crops.

Proprietary trading - take someone else's money they got paid for their crops, legally

[parker → ggruschow]

> Subsistence farming - grow your own crops and eat them.

So how did you buy your land again? Or is the Soviet Government still encouraging settlement in Siberia ... ?

I think supposing that you need money to stay alive in our society is a fairly air-tight theory.