Work-centric views should not be generalized to everyone else
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-07-24
This reply doubles down on the argument that people should not generalize their own relationship to work into a universal rule.
- It says these people matter just as much as anyone else.
- But they are only a select subset of the population.
- Therefore they should be humble about how far their preferences and experience generalize to everyone else.
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