Workism is a new word, and it’s a good one. It captures the spirit of our elites, who from childhood are raised to be workers for work’s sake. Work is their priority, their imperative, their strategy, their solution, their delight, their governing philosophy.
Being masters who toil, they naturally judge the people below them by their own self-understanding and impose and reimpose upon them, simply, work. They will have us be like them, doing work without higher purpose, work without end.
Lyman Stone, Peter Foreshaw Brookes, The Critic
Lenore Skenazy, Los Angeles Times
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