• @AllonzeeLV
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    10 months ago

    Type As are the people that kill themselves at work and show frustration at those that don’t. The annoying true believers of the workplace. They live for “that grind culture,” and in many to most cases, brag about the toll it’s taken on their personal lives if they still have one. Their sense of self is tied to their job.

    People who work to live are just that. They don’t derive their sense of self of life’s purpose from their job. They do what they have to for their pay check and leave.

    For this, Type As often mock them as lazy, while work to liver’s mock type A’s intensity and values.

    • Ann Archy
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      510 months ago

      The annoying true believers of the workplace.

      The obedient house slaves. “Stop fighting for your rights, you’ll get us all killed! If you would just be more obedient they might let you live in the big house too!”

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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      510 months ago

      As a “work-to-live” person Type As are my natural enemy. If I’ve got a meeting before noon some Type A person is the culprit.

      • @nomous
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        110 months ago

        Ah see, as another work-to-liver I try to schedule my meetings before lunch so I can fuck around after lunch.

    • peopleproblems
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      510 months ago

      Hah, here I was about to say there is some grey area in there, but the reality is that if I didn’t have to work to maintain my standard of living, I fucking wouldn’t

      • Ann Archy
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        210 months ago

        People have become so brainwashed by this ancient fucking industrial age myth of working that they think this shit is still valid hundreds of years later.

    • @[email protected]
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      410 months ago

      Ah, I see what you mean. Work to survive makes more sense to me as a term for that than work to live, but to each their own.

      • @[email protected]
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        610 months ago

        But it’s “work to live” not just survive. You spend the rest of the time on living. Whether that’s fishing, hunting, crocheting, watching football, playing games, or something else. Enough money to do what you want to.

        • @[email protected]
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          110 months ago

          I interpret work to live as the reason I work is to live. That implies working is necessary to live. Which is simply not true in our modern day society. Some people don’t have to work.

          I could see how someone could easily misinterpret “work to live” as deriving their sense of self of life’s purpose from their job. That is the opposite of what is meant by it. It is so close semantically to the exact opposite philosophy of “living to work”.

          Working to survive, on the other hand, implies that your only there because you are forced to be to survive.

        • Ann Archy
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          110 months ago

          Yeah, that’s what we all do, we just work all day then we come home and go hunting, fishing, kayaking, trekking through the desert, that’s how things work, and thank god they do right.