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Imagine if we started seeing purpose as the core driver of our work rather than just the paycheck. What if the real value of what we do each day could shape not just our lives but how we address the inequalities built into our professional world?

Purpose driven work can bridge the gap far more effectively than state run economic policies. It shifts our focus from what we get to what we give. By creating jobs with meaning, we make everyone’s role more equitable, no matter the paycheck.

Let's prioritize impact over income and watch how the real changes ripple out.

Note: Money sustains the worker, purpose sustains the work.

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Josephus 2mo ago

The problem is that these two things should be aligned.

Money is an exchange for value, a medium that acts as a representation of worth.

A philosophy that preaches money as evil or, conversely, as one sees money in and of itself (eg: “he’s only good for the money”) cannot wish to have virtue. And as the society breaks into low trust, it will eventually loose the value the money was supposed to represent like a tree with rotted roots.

This is the “ghost” side of the mind-body dichotomy.

Likewise a society that steals and befrauds, debases its currency, and rewards “schemes” and “hustles” with money has inverted cause and effect. Equally, this society will ALSO collapse into low trust as “get rich quick” schemes and throw away junk become the norm and things simply don’t work anymore because there is no human value (via work) being added to the system to maintain the value of the money being stolen.

This is the “zombie” side of the mind-body dichotomy.

“A body without a mind is a zombie. A mind without a body is a ghost. Both are symbols of death”—Ayn Rand

Contra 2mo ago

That’s an insightful way to frame it. The “mind body dichotomy” you mention ties closely to how modern economies split value (money) from meaning (purpose). I’d argue that purpose driven work seeks to reunite those two, bringing together mind and body, meaning and material.

When work serves both human fulfillment and fair exchange, money regains its integrity as a reflection of genuine contribution, not manipulation.

Purpose doesn’t reject money; it restores its meaning.

Josephus 2mo ago

I’d argue the same: that purpose driven work is supposed to merge the spiritual (mind) and material (body) towards the same purpose via incentive, which is the point of properly executed capitalism. The failures are part government and part cultural and must be addressed on both levels to correct this bifurcation.

Don’t give me too much credit though: much of what I said was from Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, specifically from Francisco D’Anconia’s famous “meaning of money” speech.

Boy does she have some issues on tabula rasa, rejection of evolution as a system, and thinking that agoristic “strikes” (the working title for atlas shrugged”) would result in anything other than Waco/Ruby ridge. But her epistemology and ethical validation of capitalism are some of the most important contributions to philosophy in the last 100 years.

Brisket 2mo ago 💬 1

I've known for some time that the work I was doing largely lacked purpose. I was just a cog in a big meat grinder that seemed to produce no sausages.

It paid the mortgage, bought shiny objects & allowed me to stack enough bitcoin that I could eventually let it go.

When I stopped being a cog I realised that I lacked not only the income now but the sense of purpose. The sense of purpose was just an illusion but without that illusion I felt my sense of worth diminish.

I spent a long while moping around with these feelings. It was great that I had my time back but what was I to do? I resisted the urge to become someone else's cog & just started working on stuff to make my family's and my experience better.

What I discovered is that there's value in the doing. Men in particular find a great peace in the doing, particularly when it's to achieve a shared goal or objective. I find there's also a tremendous return in delivering even a small amount of value to others.

The secret I've found is to get excited about the work & to be in the moment while you do it. Whether others notice your work straight away is not important. The fruits of your labour generally take time to materialise but the value to you is in the actual doing. This is what they took from us when they tricked us into thinking consumption was the objective. Working through pain & discomfort also makes us physically & mentally stronger. Our skills develop & we become less reliant on those who want to be our master.

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Contra 2mo ago

I appreciated this Brisket. I think you’re exactly right. The doing restores the man.

Consumption breeds weakness, creation builds dominion.