On Work: Money, Meaning, Identity (Atlantic Editions)
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
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It is the belief—the faith, even—that work is not life’s product, but its currency. What we choose to buy with it is the ultimate project of living.
Derek Thompson • Workism Is Making Americans Miserable
Today’s rich Americans can afford vastly more leisure than ever before, but as Thompson points out, they’re using their wealth “to buy the strangest of prizes: more work”. This trend only starts to make sense against the backdrop of the waning of the commons. In a world absent God or meaning, work is evolving from a means of material production to
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