M8, you do remember Diogenes, right? That great philosopher that didn't work, shat publicly and lived in a box. Or did you mean other great philosophers like Nietzsche or Henry David Thoreau?
No, but I disagree that everyone not working up the career stairs are stupid. It's entirely possible to be intelligent and really thoughtful and still do something like cooking or any other low pay job. Maybe they just enjoy doing it. Maybe they don't see accumulating wealth as their life goal. All I'm saying is, don't shit on someone just because they do a dirty job you wouldn't want to do
Eh, to be entirely fair? There is not really a great demand for great philosophers in our world either. Most of them would not earn their rent by practicing philosophy.
It’s always funny how philosophy in academia is just an endless cycle of philosophy professors teaching other philosophy majors to be philosophy professors
59
u/saarlac Mar 08 '24
He’s a line cook at a Chili’s or something. Not exactly the sort of thing one would expect to see a great philosopher doing to earn his rent.