What's the point of working so hard

I just watched a video where the creator says “What’s the point of working hard. What’s the point of all this, if I can’t get a Friday that’s calm.”

I get it. Its hard. Your brain needs a break. Your body needs a break. You need to go for a walk peacefully. Well, it stops right there for me.

I can only write from my perspective here, I come from India (Chennai, a city in the South to be specific). So here goes.

Many Indians here work to cover their basics. You work to work your way up. For example, if I have kids, and I need to take them on a stroller for a peaceful walk, I need to find or live in a place like that. Where the roads are stable, no traffic, no sound pollution, no honking, clean air, no spitting on the road, no stray dogs, no angry cows, and above all, where I know I can be safe. This (weirdly) we call a “lifestyle” is earned here. It is “created” here.

For a country who talks about “Indians are one”, it isn’t. Take a 5kms walk in any city (other than your own) in India, and tell me how much you trust the other person.

For people in developed countries, this infrastructure is given. You can just walk out, the air is clean, easy to breathe, roads are proper, you smile at someone else and get a smile back, you head the “white noise” in most places, and even the cities have good roads with basic infrastructure covered. This, makes people generally happy. Talking a walk in developed countries are “not your brain power drains”.

And heck Indians need to have “Bribe Budget” too. You need to get a simple document? There’s bribe involved somewhere there. Do they do the job properly after getting their share of people’s hard work? Nope. The infrastructure reflects just that.

So for anyone who says “What’s the point of all this”, this is the point. People here work to make as many things as possible their “own” so that they can control it, and change it to how they want to live. The rest, watch movies and compromise. Most shouldn’t.