Frontiers | Searching for meaning in a post-scarcity society. Implications for creativity and job design

We sense that there are important and fulfilling ways we could be spending our time, even if we can’t say exactly what they are—yet we systematically spend our days doing other things instead. This yearning for more meaning can take many forms: It’s there, for instance, in the desire to devote yourself to some larger cause, in the intuition that th

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Working in a factory or corporation in a major city was something many individuals aspired to during the early 20th century for the economic prosperity relative to a more tenuous farming life. Yet, as we’ve seen, the limit has shifted. Economic growth has stalled both for society and for us as individuals. Because of the qualitative and structural

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