The Philosophy of Work [pdf]
I was again, arguing about work on reddit. Someone said that even animals &quot;work&quot; to survive. I found that the comparison was not really good.<p>Food and shelter are abundant.<p>Technology improved the human condition, but it made humans be much much less social, which is the main cause of inequalities.<p>The individual car&#x2F;kitchen&#x2F;living room&#x2F;bathroom generate exclusion. I&#x27;m an introvert, I want to have my safe space, but I don&#x27;t need to cook alone, to eat alone, to work alone, or to be alone 99% of the time.<p>I guess that&#x27;s what people criticize about current capitalism. It&#x27;s not only the inequalities (that always were always present in civilization), but it&#x27;s rather the individualism, the atomization, the complex logistics and mechanization of how everything is turned into money, without limits.<p>In earlier times, in hunter gatherer societies, food was scarce and work was important. But today, you cannot tell people that working in fast food or in customer support is mandatory to eat and have a roof on your head.