It's pretty human to console ourselves with multiple things...
We tell ourselves things to make ourselves feel better.
Like...
Some one bad will get his just returns...
Well... maybe he will, maybe he won't. But we tell ourselves that eventually, we hope, that karma catches up to him.
Or we tell ourselves that... We don't want to work so hard and earn more. Cos even though we can earn more, we correlate working hard to falling sick, getting stressed, having less work life balance.
But that's an assumption. First, many people who are salaried workers won't get more pay by working more hours. So there's not much that working harder will do. It's not like some sales job.
Then there's the assumption that working harder will take it's toll on the person. Which again might not be true.
The truth is, when people say this, they usually don't have a choice to work harder to earn more. Imagine,...