Workism and Desire: To What End Do We Work?

What to do if work becomes our idol.

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On February 24th, in an article titled Workism Is Making Americans Miserable, Derek Thompson made a compelling case that for many college-educated men and women, work has become a religion. Thompson writes,

“The economists of the early 20th century did not foresee that work might evolve from a means of material production to a…