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I don't mean it in a clock more hours in at the factory way. Some people can direct themselves. But you've got to do something, even if only for the personal outcomes, i.e. comparing retirees who keep busy to those who do not, you'll find a significant effect on health, satisfaction with life. And of course there's a ripple effect on others, I am one who gets many presents cooked up in that workshop, and am hardly alone.


> Some people can direct themselves.

That's the ideal. Really is a complex grayscale, depending greatly on the person's current circumstances. And, factory or not, for society to function it needs 99% of people to pick from a pretty short list of fairly prosocial choices.

> But you've got to do something, even if...

Yes-ish? I'm not saying it was good - but society didn't much mind people being couch potatoes watching 1960's-era TV. Vs. falling down the addictive rabbit holes of modern social media - that's not looking like it can end well.




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