What you think of Nietzsche's aversion to work?

The eulogists of work. Behind the glorification of 'work' and the tireless talk of the 'blessings of work' I find the same thought as behind the praise of impersonal activity for the public benefit: the fear of everything individual. At bottom, one now feels when confronted with work – and what is invariably meant is relentless industry from early till late – that such work is the best police, that it keeps everybody in harness and powerfully obstructs the development of reason, of covetousness, of the desire for independence. For it uses up a tremendous amount of nervous energy and takes it away from reflection, brooding, dreaming, worry, love, and hatred; it always sets a small goal before one's eyes and permits easy and regular satisfactions. In that way a society in which the members continually work hard will have more security: and security is now adored as the supreme goddess..."

—Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn, p. 173

"you are only as intelligent as you are paid to be"

paraphrasing a quote from memory

Work was different back then.

Ever since I have started full time work (45hrs a week). I am dumber, less healthy, waste way more money, angry and tired constantly, relationships with friends and family have fallen apart.

I am wondering why this is worth it and why so many people do it. I got by way better working 25hrs a week. I was happier, used my money better, and was living life. Yet any mention of quitting a full time job is met with harsh criticisms and warnings from family members.

I am miserable. The West collapses around me and I slave away my life at a company that is probably contributing to said collapse.

if all of our work was done by free energy powered robots, people who worshipped and fetishised the idea of hard work would be seen as insane degenerates.

If you can live with a 25h wage, why not go back to part-time? I'm myself thinking about cutting to 4 days.

I agree that people tend to be obsessed with advancement and wages. For what? Social status? Chugging more money into consumerism and participate in the trade deficit of their country?

I'm truly fed-up with this money obession that I see as a compensation for physical and/or intellectual mediocrity.

I don't understand. If I don't work what do I do? I will be bored to tears and get depressed feeliny like im contributing nothing to society

You hit the nail on the the head Ozanon! The 45 hour work week is pure, unadulterated poison for the human spirit.

Im an archaeologist specialiced in stone age societies and I can tell you with pretty solid (scientific) certainty that our ancestors were most likely not working (hunting, gathering, tool production, maintenance) more than roughly 20 hours a week, the rest of the time was spent socialising, being creative, perhaps practicing.

Funnily these hours also coincide with what medical scientist consider the physically healthiest amount of strenuous activity a week.

Jews did this

-nietzsche

You could start by reading a book or two and maybe not having such a brainlet outlook on life

>I will be bored to tears and get depressed feeliny like im contributing nothing to society

That has nothing to do with the lack of "work" but rather with your own emptyness. Maybe working less would allow you to discover your true talent and therefor lead to a much greater contribution of yours to society. Being a wage slave is actually rather contributing to the downfall of our once great people.

>I love builders they build houses in which one day will live Overman.
>Neitzsche

Nobody wants to be an office drone just serving somebody else for a small compensation. Everybody wants to be Independent doing their own thing but those who fail become servants to those who succed.

He was not agains work, more against that kind servitude.

I work full time and study art and Unreal Engine 4 hoping to one day be free from everyday slavery.
There are things I want to make, to do and to be and neither of thise things has to do anything with dusty papers in office that shouldnt even exist.

Final year MD student here. This is actually something im worried about, as I know the expectation for many residents is to work 60 - 80 hour weeks.

Part of me is ok with that, because im doing something ill love (I really do love medicine), and so going to work wont be a bad thing. A different part of me wishes for a 30hr week, so I can focus on family and help raise our kids with my wife.

How should I feel about this?

>Working more than you believe you should
But why?

>Not figuring out how to beat the financial system by the time you graduate college
Enjoy your memories

Just because the good choices are made difficult doesn't mean they do not exist. A slave complains about his situation, a free man solves his problems

Try and only work 50 hour weeks and get it to 40 as your kids grow up I suppose
This thread seems more about doing menial pointless shit you don't want to do to survive. You have a better thing going
Congratulations btw

Nietzsche was a syphillitic autist who had to be cared for by his mom and his sister for his entire life because he couldn't even go for a brisk walk without getting winded. Much of his "durr hurr muh ubermensch" """philosophy""" boils down to being a depressed beta with delusions of grandeur

>whaaaaaaaaaaaa I get to do heroic things and hang out with hot nurses and make millions and get my ass kissed and act like an arrogant god over people who are at my mercy

>How should I feel about this Sup Forums?

You should feel lucky you spoiled faggot.

"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind." - Aristotle

You're being over worked.

>syphillitic
kike propaganda
He had brain cancer, like his father.
>Much of his "durr hurr muh ubermensch" """philosophy""" boils down to being a depressed beta with delusions of grandeur
This is what happens when you give aristocratic philosophy to the "last men" (hipster 4ch faggots and fake christians who no longer believe it deep down).

Hey snow nigger! How are you? What time is it over there in Russia? IDK im from mexico can you mail me a snow woman with blue eyes? Pretty please? I want her to be young
Oh dont worry the age of consent here is 14

I have nearly been convinced by this idea too. Maybe soon I will completely believe it.

>aristocratic
>MOM GET ME MORE HOT POCKETS I NEED TO BTFO THESE CHRISTIANS SOME MORE
sure thing kiddo, I remember being 14

Your job shouldn't feel like work. I teach history, and I enjoy it. There will always be unenlightened plebs who work at McDonalds or as cashiers, and to say any man who works for a living is wasting his time is foolish. I read, I write, I teach, I grade, and I "contemplate" as he says. Nietzsche seems to be under the impression that a man works, comes home, eats, and sleeps, and enjoys no free time to himself and his thoughts. The plebs are plebs, there will always be plebs, and they will never understand what Nietzsche is trying to say; they're too braindead. What Nietzsche doesn't understand is that it's not the work that undermines that pleb's mind, but rather that the pleb is naturally feeble-minded and needs work to guide him for his life to be of any use to anybody. Many people are naturally predisposed to be useless sacks, a 9-5 job does not make them that way.

On a mostly related note, I think Nietzsche is often misunderstood. Too many edgy faggots read a few often quoted paragraphs from TSZ, and think Nietzsche was a nihilist who thought life was meaningless and that nobody should care about anything and that nothing means anything at all, when in reality he was saying that men should embrace the meaninglessness and come out on top by creating their own meaning. Anyone who reads TSZ and not Ride the Tiger by Evola does not fully understand TSZ.