Talk:Work Less, Have More Fun/@comment-252647-20130128145050

Comment thread from 2012 brought over from former wiki site:

Suggest: Fewer Jobs, more meaningful work. The fact is that people in traditional societies did lots of work, but it had intrinsic meaning to them, and often involved creativity, beauty, being in nature, relating to each other, and other sources of meaning and joy. A "job" is working FOR someone else, and is the basis of "employment" where we're being employed by others. We want more self-determinism and more meaning and pleasure in the work that we do, less alienation of pleasure and meaning from work. Getting clear that you aren't talking about dancing too intensively (which is, after all, work)!! :-) Unless, of course, you are talking about speed (and slowness) and use of time (and the need for "free time"). Seems more sorting out is needed here. April 6, 2012 by Tomatlee