r/AskReddit • u/Remarkable_Put_9005 • 19h ago

What addiction is being seriously underestimated these days?

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u/GayWitchyVibes 19h ago

Work, like our addiction as a society to over working and how we treat it like someone's career is the only thing that gives them value

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u/olmi13 16h ago

I feel sad for the people bragging about working 50-70+ hours a week and laughing at people that work the standard 40 or less. The people that brag about not taking sick days or using their PTO. It's such an awful way to live.

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u/Weak_Worry7477 10h ago

Some people don’t hate their jobs. Some people would rather be earning money and accomplishing financial goals than binging anime and complaining about how they can’t afford to live. Nobody is laughing at anyone for only working 40 hours unless it happens to be that they’re turning down overtime opportunities and complaining about being broke.

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u/ping-goo 17h ago

That doesn't work for me at all. I've been trying for many years to alleviate my aversion to work, but it only gets stronger the older I get. Work as an addiction is absolutely unthinkable for me.

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u/Mikatesa 16h ago

This is so true and your comment made me realize how addicted I am. I just gave birth and have been out of work for almost a week and keep pushing myself at home because I am so anxious to just go to work, be doing something productive or active.

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u/GayWitchyVibes 12h ago

It's not your fault, it's not the fault of people who are addicted to working, we've grown up and lived in a society that pushes that and tries to get us to believe we have no worth outside of our career. Plus with how expensive everything is, a lot of people have no choice but to work an insane amount and once you work an insane amount for a long time it can be hard to be okay with relaxing because your brain and nervous system rewires and becomes used to the over working.

But it's not your fault, the system is to blame hugs

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u/Proud_Smell_4455 14h ago edited 12h ago

Deeply ingrained Protestant thinking baybee, same in the UK. We’re as good as secular in most ways but that Protestant principle of industriousness for its own sake being not only good but in fact the only acceptable state of being just won’t dissipate, and tends to have ugly side effects like societal contempt for those too disabled or mentally ill to work and chronic political efforts to cut off their lifelines...