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Workism Is Making Americans Miserable
The modern ideology of workism asks two distinct pursuits—money and inner fulfillment—to coalesce. These pursuits are not always aligned,7 and yet we increasingly look to our jobs to satisfy both.
Simone Stolzoff • The Good Enough Job: What We Gain When We Don’t Put Work First
“If work dominated your every moment, would life be worth living?”
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
The ideal of a self-actualizing worker, a notion that fused religious and psychological discourses, provided a synthesis wherein self-fulfillment is foregrounded while economic compensation and service to the community recede into the background.
Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
The desire for fulfilling work — a job that provides a deep sense of purpose, and reflects our values, passions and personality — is a modern invention. ... For centuries, most inhabitants of the Western world were too busy struggling to meet their subsistence needs to worry about whether they had an exciting career that used their talents and nurt... See more
Maria Popova • How to Find Fulfilling Work
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
amazon.com
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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