I&#x27;m not sure I find it useful to provide a descriptive framework about this issue without also discussing a normative interpretation. In fact, I think I personally have a somewhat extreme view that we have to do a better job of even defining what &quot;work&quot; means, and that such a definition should not be articulated in purely economic terms, but that aspects of human mental health, goal satisfaction, Self Determination Theory, and baseline morally just working conditions should be mandatory prerequisites to any notion of &quot;work&quot; -- that economic analyses of the side effects of different work-related policies are literally only meaningful if they take place <i>after</i> accounting for these other baseline factors.