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A Boring Dystopia

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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not necessarily, those are all things lots of people get pleasure out of, I even like to research my family tree from time to time and I'm nowhere close to retirement yet lmao

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Lots of, but not the majority. They could have picked many other things that would seem fun for much larger groups of people, but that would be counterproductive for trying to convince you to work forever.

edit: note that I live on a vacation destination for golf and cruises, and this is still my impression.