America’s fever of workaholism is finally breaking
&gt; In 2019, I called this phenomenon “workism.” In a time of declining religiosity, rich Americans seemed to turn to their career to fill the spiritual vacuum at the center of their life. For better or (very often) for worse, their desk had become their altar.<p>I find this a very strange idea, and I think it&#x27;s mostly formed by looking at something without understanding it. The people&#x27;s motivation the author finds is &quot;they&#x27;ve replaced religion with work&quot;. Why isn&#x27;t it more practical: there&#x27;s a lot of stuff to do and they want it done, so they do it?<p>Maybe it&#x27;s just a divide where neither side understands the other, but I&#x27;ve never understood people who see a big task they want done and don&#x27;t sink their teeth into it and work hard to get it done. I guess on Orwell&#x27;s Animal Farm, there&#x27;s Boxer and there&#x27;s Napoleon, and Napoleon wonders why Boxer works so hard.