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posted by Snow on Tuesday December 13 2016, @10:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the this-is-just-what-our-corporate-overlords-want-us-to-think dept.

You’d think striking it suddenly rich would be the ultimate ticket to freedom. Without money worries, the world would be your oyster. Perhaps you’d champion a worthy cause, or indulge a sporting passion, but work? Surely not. However, remaining gainfully employed after sudden wealth is more common than you’d think. After all, there are numerous high-profile billionaires who haven’t called it quits despite possessing the luxury to retire, including some of the world’s top chief executives, such as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.

But it turns out, the suddenly rich who aren’t running companies are also loathe to quit, even though they have plenty of money. That could be, in part, because the link between salary and job satisfaction is very weak.


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  • (Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Tuesday December 13 2016, @02:59PM

    by q.kontinuum (532) on Tuesday December 13 2016, @02:59PM (#440799) Journal

    Not to mention I enjoy making furniture.

    I think the problem is not so much in the obviously constructive jobs. There are just some other jobs, where it is probably more difficult to find some intrinsic satisfaction, like e.g. scrubbing toilets.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 13 2016, @03:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 13 2016, @03:12PM (#440807)

    Actually ran out of cash during a road trip, and ended up scrubbing bathrooms to get enough to make it back home.

    While not the most enjoyable thing I've done, there's a certain satisfaction in doing something well. Mike Rowe has made the same observation.

    Or all the more reason to pay the more unpleasant jobs well, but then you get into why oil rig workers earn more than gender studies baristas, the whole wage gap thing... Marx's labor theory of value.

    • (Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Tuesday December 13 2016, @03:29PM

      by q.kontinuum (532) on Tuesday December 13 2016, @03:29PM (#440816) Journal

      reason to pay the more unpleasant jobs well

      I agree. With basic income for everyone, earning something on top would be an enjoyable thing compared to work hard to hardly make ends meet now. Also I suspect that the less enjoyable jobs usually require less training, so it would be entirely feasible (with basic income available) to have more people just working a few hours a week for some additional luxuries instead of having few people being forced to do it as a full time job.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 13 2016, @03:41PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 13 2016, @03:41PM (#440820)

        So guys, next time you visit a nice, clean public toilet, tip the toilet lady a dollar more ;)

    • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Thursday December 15 2016, @11:21AM

      by TheRaven (270) on Thursday December 15 2016, @11:21AM (#441563) Journal
      There's a part in Iain M Banks' Use of Weapons where the main character has just been introduced to The Culture and doesn't understand why there's someone serving in a restaurant in a post-scarcity society. The other character explains that his real vocation is comparative religion, but it takes about 100 years to properly test a hypothesis in that field. Meanwhile, if he wipes a table clean, he immediately gets satisfaction from a clean table and he gets to talk to interesting people (and enjoy the fact that they appreciate the clean table).
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