Making A Living

People unfortunately need to earn money to support themselves within a socially constructed system of economics to avoid stealing or any other immoral means of resource acquisition, if they cannot adequately hire someone else to do the same tasks for them.  This is what constitutes the legitimate, pragmatically necessary endeavor of making a living.  Some people might confuse the practical necessity of someone performing labor of some kind so they or others can live with the supremely foundational aspects of reality, which is erroneous; only logical axioms are true in themselves and so are the intrinsic foundation of all things, and even beyond basic logical axioms, currency depends on the material world, which itself depends ultimately on the causal chain stemming from the uncaused cause, for starters.  Nothing about making a living is anywhere near the innermost heart of reality.

Others might due to classist arrogance regard business as more than a basic way to make a living, as something that renders the successful or wealthy superior to others, perhaps even the only people that have value.  There is a key difference in intention and worldview between these two types of people.  One is simply fixating on the practical to the point of misunderstanding wholly how the abstract (logical necessities and broader core metaphysics) constitutes the greatest truths on which all else hangs.  The other thinks that if they feel superior on the basis of material or practical triumph or if society treats them as such, then it must really be so.

Both kinds of people might be prone to build their whole philosophies and lives around professional work and the wealth or recognition it can bring.  Still, no one intelligent, save for those with motivations like genuine subjective enjoyment without holding to fallacies or who need to scramble out of debt, would devote an iota of effort to amassing surplus material income/wealth as if it is the means and the end all at once.  After a point, a person who gives their time and effort to securing money is no longer making a living, but instead pursuing gratuitous wealth—or the social privilege and power that comes with it.  This sort of person absolutely does not know or does not care about the rationalistic truths concerning money, such as that it is a mere social construct that therefore cannot possibly be the heart of reality.

If it is not the heart of reality, but only a means to various ends that might or might not be valid, then to figuratively worship money or spend all of one's strength fixating on it is illogical and pointless.  Seeking money to just achieve recognition or status is likewise utterly stupid, though some people like to feel special or superior because of professional success or monetary wealth.  They have gone far beyond making a living.  Their goal is one of appeasing their ego or winning the asinine, arbitrary respect of fools who conflate the likes of money or prestige with human value.  One way or another, this is simply a false concept.  If people have value, it cannot be rooted in a sheer invention of society (like currency), community perception, or in emotionalistic validation, all of which are irrelevant to the foundational nature of objective truth.

Logic, unlike money, is not a social construct, and logic necessitates that making a living could be neither the foremost component of truth and morality.  It also necessitates that to go beyond making a living for any reason but the aforementioned kinds is itself stupid.  Rather than exalting themself above a mass of lesser common people who have not matched their financial level, the one who goes past simply making a living into classist or emotionalistic intentions has not escaped the irrationalism of general humanity.  They have chosen to express it in a particular way, though it might not be the gravitation of all non-rationalists, and so have not elevated themself above anyone else who is a slave to errors and assumptions.  Making a living is not about delusions like this.