“Earning a living” assumes that by default you die and that without direct compensation you do not deserve your upkeep.
(I notice a feeling that what moves are categorised as shady moves feel like setting the zero in themselfs. This has a high likelyhood of being the kind of “irressponcible metaspinning” that the forewarning is about)
New examples from discussion elsewhere:
“Oversharing”
“The notion of ‘opportunity cost’ subtly sets the zero point at optimal behavior, effectively painting all actually possible behaviors as in the red.”
Whether billionaires are assumed to be “stealing” money from the rest of us by default.
“Earning a living” assumes that by default you die and that without direct compensation you do not deserve your upkeep.
(I notice a feeling that what moves are categorised as shady moves feel like setting the zero in themselfs. This has a high likelyhood of being the kind of “irressponcible metaspinning” that the forewarning is about)