Enough – Dave Martin

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2024-06-06 03:00:06

At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have … enough.” Enough. I was stunned by the simple eloquence of that word—stunned for two reasons: first, because I have been given so much in my own life and, second, because Joseph Heller couldn’t have been more accurate. For a critical element of our society, including many of the wealthiest and most powerful among us, there seems to be no limit today on what enough entails.

Is it weird that the average work week is 5 days per week, 8 hours per day, and that most everyone just sort of falls in line with this willingly, no questions asked?

When I worked at WildBit, they had a 4 day work week and I remember it always just felt off. Something about it didn’t feel quite right. I should have loved it. But I didn’t.