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npilktoday at 8:41 PM1 replyview on HN

So the author tells us there is a crisis of meaning in the workplace, and their proposed solution is… to remember none of the work matters?

The start of the piece: “These conversations inevitably turn to fundamental questions about careers: What the fuck are we actually doing? What the fuck is the point of all of this?”

The end: “For most employees, we owe it to each other to remind one another that this work is not, in the grand scheme of things, all that important. It is illusory.”


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hingler36today at 8:52 PM

Yeah, this take is wildly out of touch. Sure, it's great when you're able to derive philosophical meaning from your work, but at the end of the day the vast majority of people are here for the paycheck.