Wage Labor
This is in line with the most recent research, which shows that burnout is multifaceted and rarely has to do with the volume of work you have to do. Burnout is emotional in nature.
The research literature uses many different terms to describe the main types of burnout, but here are the ones I use for the sake of simplicity: burnout can be linked to weariness, withdrawal, or worry — and often to a mix of those three dimensions.
As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.
The trees act not as individuals, but somehow as a collective. Exactly how they do this, we don’t yet know. But what we see is the power of unity. What happens to one happens to us all. We can starve together or feast together.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
via The Slow Factory, Instagram 01/03/2021
Other animals do not need a purpose in life. A contradiction to itself, the human animal cannot do without one. Can we not think of the aim of life as being simply to see?
John Gray, Straw Dogs
via arena, 06/07/2020
»Work« and »Leisure« form a binary pair, so if you get rid of one you get rid of the other. In a strict sense a post work society would also be a post leisure society.
Unknown, via arena, 06/07/2020
Many jobs undermine self-love because they require that workes constantly prove their worth.
Unknown, via arena, 06/07/2020
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