(April 25, 2016 at 8:28 am)robvalue Wrote: I'd consider this life to be a whole lot less meaningful if it was just some stupid test from some bored layabout deity.
When you realise this is (probably) all you're going to get, you've got much more incentive to make the most of it rather than coast through it.
I don't like it put like this. Most people if lucky can keep food on the table and a roof over their heads and work for others. Life certainly is what you make it, and certainly the more educated a society is the more stable it is.
But just like only one sperm gets the egg, the math just isn't there for everyone to be on top. I think it is ok to try to do what you want, because if you get to do what you love, then it isn't really work. I hate the term "hard work", the way it is sold now has nothing to do with productivity, but a code word the top use to convince you to chase utopias.
The world has enough rich people, what we need is less poverty and more global stability. If life is not a script and we all different, then what living life to me is simply being happy, a more educated happy yes, but happy no matter where you end up.
