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mellosoulstoday at 7:21 AM1 replyview on HN

From Wikipedia, a quote that seems relevant to this forum with its anti-grind-culture ethic:

On the practice of idling, [founder] Tom Hodgkinson writes:

A characteristic of the idler's work is that it looks suspiciously like play. This, again, makes the non-idler feel uncomfortable. Victims of the Protestant work ethic would like all work to be unpleasant. They feel that work is a curse, that we must suffer on this earth to earn our place in the next. The idler, on the other hand, sees no reason not to use his brain to organise a life for himself where his play is his work, and so attempt to create his own little paradise in the here and now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idler_(1993)


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sphtoday at 8:14 AM

> a quote that seems relevant to this forum with its anti-grind-culture ethic

Are we reading the same forum?

I have noticed that my anti-work (or anti-AI, or left-leaning) comments tend to do better when EU and East Coast are awake, and get downvoted when West Coast is most active.

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