This resonates. I was thinking yesterday about an adjacent topic. The almost fetishisation of 'hard working families' or even 'the noble worker'. Our lives and everything beautiful and wonderful we do, distilled into our economic activity. My job does take up a lot of my week, and it can be interesting, but it really isn't me.
Don't ask me what I do, ask me what I enjoy, what I love, what I am interested in and curious about.
It's the puritan work ethic being expressed in a new form. These are almost always coined as a way to hold people in their place. 'Hard working families' eulogises a desired norm and makes people feel good about themselves in a way that 'Under-rewarded families' does not, although it's just another way of saying the same thing. 'The noble worker' recieves praise but is not given a bigger slice of the pie, the work being presented as a reward in itself.
The idea that you could work less and have a more rewarding life is anathema to the Status Quo.
This resonates. I was thinking yesterday about an adjacent topic. The almost fetishisation of 'hard working families' or even 'the noble worker'. Our lives and everything beautiful and wonderful we do, distilled into our economic activity. My job does take up a lot of my week, and it can be interesting, but it really isn't me.
Don't ask me what I do, ask me what I enjoy, what I love, what I am interested in and curious about.
It's the puritan work ethic being expressed in a new form. These are almost always coined as a way to hold people in their place. 'Hard working families' eulogises a desired norm and makes people feel good about themselves in a way that 'Under-rewarded families' does not, although it's just another way of saying the same thing. 'The noble worker' recieves praise but is not given a bigger slice of the pie, the work being presented as a reward in itself.
The idea that you could work less and have a more rewarding life is anathema to the Status Quo.