Are you just working to pay yourself ?!

yes.

I can't get my head round this, is it a trick question ?

Is the answer two irishmen, three hours to dig a trench?

No,

to simplify just imagine you are a butcher or whatever every day worker really,

you sell meat and make your money that way, you then go to the supermarket to buy fruit etc and spend your wages/money to pay for them.

The shop then uses your (and countless others like you) money to pay their employees.

Some of the shop employees then use their wages/money to buy goods from you which in turn becomes your wages !

You have basically been working in order to receive your own money !

You have just read 'Economics for Dummies'

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And if that stops on a larger scale the economy collapses

I'm doing it to avoid retiring way too early.

Surely you are working to buy the stuff you got at the supermarket? That's how an economy works. Butcher & supermarket worker start with nothing. They do a bit of work, HEY PRESTO, butcher has some groceries and supermarket worker has some meat. Work is converted into stuff.

you are all just looking too deeply into things!.....just eat your meat and veg and stop worrying about it!