zdwPeople Love to Work Hard
https://www.anildash.com/2026/04/06/people-love-to-work-hard/
Nah, this is an advertisement for the toxic work culture in countries where people get pushed to live to work, make the workplace the reason of their existence, know noone outside work.
In most places around the planet, if given the option, most people will work to live, not live to work.
That purpose and passion will mean nothing when the time to lie down on the place of eternal rest comes.
Lack of imagination and vision? Maybe, I rather have it that way.
I don't think it's is quite right. If you looked at two groups, one a group of office workers who earn a lot, but spend the day pretending to be busy in the office, and another group who earns less, works hard, but does something they find very meaningful and important to their ethics, I'm sure you would find the group doing meaningful work has higher satisfaction than the group clicking aimlessly around jira while watching the clock.
Play. People love to play.
The culturally assigned meaning to work seems more like a social coercion.
If given the choice, including choice in mind, then people will likely choose community and play.
> The simple reason for that shared trait is that all of those teams were comprised of groups of people with a few key things in common:
> A clearly understood goal
> A common set of values in pursuit of that goal
The only time when i have seen this to be true is when people don't have to work for money and when they believe that their basic needs (maslow's hierarchy's bottom 2 layers) have been taken care of forever (FIRE). That's when they truly work for a shared set of goals/values