How do I convince dad not to throw me out of the house because I wont get any job where I'm ruled by authority?

• How do I convince dad not to throw me out of the house because I wont get any job where I'm ruled by authority My dad is so pissed of that I quit one of the easiest and decent paying jobs you can get especially in this economy, because I was reading too much of Schopenhauer's pessimism about the cruelty of man, nature and existence. The stupid will to survive that "just is" and defies all reason. The selfish egoist sexual sadism of all nature and man. How can I live in a world like that? Maybe if I had been educated since childhood that thats the way the world is I could have accepted it. But in school they taught us lies about good guys and bad guys that I was the only fool stupid enough to believe. How do I convince dad not to throw me out of the house because I wont get any job where I'm ruled by authority My dad thinks I'm depressed because I have no friends or girlfriend. But this is a philosophical existential depression not a personal psychological one! I just can't move, get out of bed or live in this world under such cruel conditions! I know that there is a libertarian argument that capitalism is the natural sister of democracy. That the free market is true economic liberty of personal responsibility, free will and voluntary choice. And you have an uncle named John Galt who used to have to lick toilets clean but then invented a autolicker and became a trillionaire. For the moment lets just leave that theoretical argument to the side. What is the reality? In the USA all workers are at-will. Which means you can be fired for any reason whatsoever save race or sex. For rooting for another sports team, for complaining about an abusive employee, for doing your job too good, for listening to your manager, for asking for a raise or a pay decrease. For any reason whatsoever. So your boss has basically godlike omnipotent power over your life. Since there is limited welfare, its not impossible to starve from poverty so it literally is life and death. Without getting into a theoretical debate about capitalism, on a personal level its hard for me to just accept that some of the worst people in the world, the alpha male wolves should have such arbitrary power over my life. When you think that the lion's share of your time revolves around work, and your job pays your bills for the offhours. Since we're all such individualists, whats the solution for the individual. I guess theres the claim that anyone can be an entrepreneur. But for a young guy right out of college, what are the options really? Boss or death. I don't know if I can endure hierarchy and authority. Perhaps a public sector job would be better since then at least there is a system of checks and balances between unions and management, so its more like a constitutional monarchy. And in an indirect sense you are working for yourself since you elect the government you work for. Technically you can elect your boss out of office but its a rather tortuous process and not reality. Most you can really do is write your congressman complaining. So I don't know what the solution is metaphysically or personally. Can this world be made livable? Can I put up with a job? To get a job is the ultimate affirmation of life. Its saying to the universe I'm satisfied with the decades that have come before, and I'm willing to work, fight and struggle to preserve whatever I already have. I'm not sure if I'm ready to take that leap of faith and affirm my past life for the future The problem is that a job is a means to an end. Even if you enjoy that job, its still true to a degree, since the job is still a means to a good life bot through spiritual and financial pay. I'm just not hungry for carrots and I'm not too afraid of the whip. I mean my present life satisfies my material needs without any positive affirmation of effort on my part. So while I may be unsatisfied with this current life, there isn't any strong impetus to radically change it. Yet at the same time I'm unwilling to positively affirm my current life by working. So the second option is to work for the "future". But the thing is there is no goal within the realm of possibility that truly drives me. So I'm neither attached to my present life nor desire any better one. I'm in a position of stasis. What am I supposed to do? The whip is I will lose what I have, the carrot is I will get some great future life. But I desire neither. There is no reason for me to work whatsoever. The thing is I can ONLY be satisfied on the metaphysical cosmic level, and that will be always answered by the "real world" and "human nature". All other pleasures are dull and useless to me if the that one is left unmet. So to say just live your life and smell the pretty flowers is a meaningless statement to me. If my metaphysical needs are not met than my personal need are a nonissue. And getting a job by positively affirming my acceptance of the values of the "real world" just undermines my metaphysical bliss all the

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  Your dad is totally right to put you out. I think you are a user who wants to live off someone else for the rest of their life. Get out in the real world and see how things work out. GOD help any girlfriend or wife you might latch on to.*