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Comment author: fubarobfusco 29 November 2013 02:56:07AM 0 points [-]

See here (and followup here).

Very relevant ... and there's a few particularly amusing points in there, including in the comments. For instance — If a lifestyle without work reliably breaks people, then why aren't retirees/pensioners reliably broken?

Comment author: [deleted] 29 November 2013 09:16:32AM 1 point [-]

OTOH ISTR that lottery winner are pretty often broken. So I guess a lifestyle without work breaks certain people but not others, and whether it does depends not only on individual personality variance but also on circumstances, in some non-totally-obvious-a-priori way.