No.684
>Unless you find your dream job and strike it rich, what is the point?
To have money to live and buy stuff.
I mean, that's why people work jobs today. You know, for food. For shelter. For utility bills. Those are the primary reasons that people work jobs. You could also work to fund revolution if you like.
Now, if you want to understand why shelter is so insanely unaffordable, why people end up renting their entire lives or taking on mortgages their entire lives where they're forever paying the bank interest for their homes, that's another question. The answer is out-of-control land speculation.
The deal has gotten worse in recent years than it was some 50 years ago, and it will keep getting worse.
There's something to say for un-alienated labor, though. On communes, work is basically entirely purposeful. If you're washing dishes, it is so the dishes are clean. If you're cooking, it is so there is food. If you're building a new house on the land, it's so there's a new house. If you're donating to the library, it's so there are more books to read. If you're shoveling the out house, it's so the big pile of shit doesn't overflow. You understand the purpose of the labor, and the reward is the completion of a task and fulfillment of common goals, and that feels different from a lot of jobs where you're just doing whatever bullshit your boss tells you and you don't even know how much money is being made at the company compared to how much you're paid in wages. It's actually a very profound thing in a situation where alienation from every aspect of labor is the norm.