

On "Workism"
I came across a very interesting article in the Atlantic by Derek Thomson titled: Workism Is Making Americans Miserable. The author main premise is that for the college-educated elite, work has morphed into a religious identity—promising identity, transcendence, and community, but failing to deliver. He refers to the context prevailing in the United States but I would say his basic premise holds in most advanced economies. Identity, meaning and self actualisation seem to be m