Man Uses $1m Win To Finally Visit Doctor, Gets Terminal Cancer Diagnosis, Dies

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LI'm going to Europe for 3 months on Thursday. I like vacation too, and I have a smart phone, but it's pay as you go and I'm giving it up while I'm in europe. How many hours of your life is a smartphone plan worth? If someone was given the choice to shorten their life by a year for their phone plan, nobody would do it, but that's about the amount of work that people will do in a lifetime to pay for a phone plan.

I understand working to support a family. That makes sense. But working 70 hours to have an iPhone and a payment plan (the propaghanda term for debt) on a brand new big, useless truck makes no sense. That's the little traps that cause people to get stuck working so much, meanwhile other people are the ones who really are getting rich off your labor.

The whole "I work 70 hours a week" sounded like bragging. It's hard to tell through text. I'd think the more valuable lesson for your children is to spend time with them and teach them what Jesus did, to eschew personal possessions and reject materialism. Seems like that center part of the new testament gets swallowed up by capitalism though.

I don't mean to sound judgemental, just reacting to the 70 hours a week thing from a point of trying to understand why people would be proud of that, or think they need to do it, when there is a better way.

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A skilled worker doing a 30-hour workweek will very often make more than say a laborer doing 60. There are innumerable good reasons why a person is a laborer and can’t work their way up, so don’t bother with the “if he just gets a better job” schtick.

That's true. But many skilled workers have to sign contracts and work 40 hour work weeks at a minimum anyway, so who cares. You are just buying shinier crap.