@sundray to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 month ago"I like being helpful and productive!"imagemessage-square8arrow-up1246arrow-down119file-text
arrow-up1227arrow-down1image"I like being helpful and productive!"@sundray to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 month agomessage-square8file-text
minus-square@Vespair@lemm.eelinkfedilink58•1 month agoI like being helpful and productive too, but I’m not naive enough to confuse helping my company make profits with actually helping society. I work because otherwise I would starve and die. That is the sole and only reason I work.
minus-square@stoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilink3•1 month agoI am in it for the stuff I can buy for the money I earn.
minus-squareFlaxlinkfedilinkEnglish11•1 month agoDepends on the work. If you have customers using your products for a good cause, it’s pretty rewarding. Also depends how you’re treated.
minus-square@Kichae@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglish11•1 month agoIt’d feel better if I was paid the full value of my labour, and if the ownership didn’t keep trying to hamstring the people trying to do good with products I help make by locking them behind weirder and weirder licenses.
minus-squareFlaxlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agoI’m sorry to hear that :( I hope you find something better
I like being helpful and productive too, but I’m not naive enough to confuse helping my company make profits with actually helping society.
I work because otherwise I would starve and die. That is the sole and only reason I work.
I’m in it for the donuts, myself.
I am in it for the stuff I can buy for the money I earn.
Depends on the work. If you have customers using your products for a good cause, it’s pretty rewarding. Also depends how you’re treated.
It’d feel better if I was paid the full value of my labour, and if the ownership didn’t keep trying to hamstring the people trying to do good with products I help make by locking them behind weirder and weirder licenses.
I’m sorry to hear that :( I hope you find something better
Bingo.