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I've been able to build whole applications in a single day on Adderall. I don't like using drugs to be a better "wage slave". I think my performance on ADHD medication is too good to be a reasonable expectation of an employer, while without them I'm performing below where I feel my true capabilities lie. It's frustrating.
My anxiety about food waste has been tempered over the years. After working in the restaurant industry you realize that any perceived reduced waste there is just hidden from you. I also realized that I do a far better job of saving and eating leftovers than almost any other millennial I know. It's a fallacy to eat food to not waste it, the cost of ingested calories is non-zero and higher than just letting it rot in a landfill in some cases.
The archetypical example of labour performed solely for the benefit of the master could be consider the ancient Egyptian Pyramids[1]. Only Pharaoh and the elite could be buried in them, the average Egyptian gaining nothing. But today it is tourists, who are not exceptionally wealthy (except in historical comparison) who enjoy the awesome sight of something so grand and millenia old.
By improving your job performance, unless you are writing code for dating apps for millionaires, you helping the masses. So if you are a slave, you are to the masses, which are likewise slaves to you.
[1] I know the workers weren't slaves. Also while enslaved people picking cotton did make some American slaveowners rich, it allowed clothe and products made from it to be cheaper for the masses.
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