“For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it’s a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.”
In a world where political candidates build campaigns around the word “work”, where the existence of universities is vindicated by what kind of employment graduates may have access to and in a reality where people spend more time in the workplace than home, it is surprising that we don’t question the nature of work more often.
Why, we must ask ourselves, do we spend so much time working but long for vacations, holidays and ultimately retirement? Why is it that we silently go about our whole lives working without giving more thought to how and why we must work, and finally why do we not stop and contemplate if meaningful work, as a human right, involves that work is meaningful on its own and therefore adds value to mankind, or if in the other hand, it is the active involvement of humans what grants meaning to toil.
Work as a social, political and legal concept requires more thought and contemplation, not only because we must have a richer perspective in terms of our relationship with employment and satisfaction but because the coming generations are challenging and rethinking the nature of productivity, mobility and success in life.
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