Month: December 2015

• December 12, 2015

  ‘Meaningful Work’ as the Last Motivator of Overwork

  I am deeply concerned about overwork and about the overvaluation of work in Western culture. I have had far too many philosophical conversations with young and old over the years not to be so concerned. Most insidious, I have come to believe, has been the coinage of “meaningful work” and the hungry aspiration on the…
• December 2, 2015

  The Ugly Reality of Work: Bullshit Jobs and Emotional Labor

  A most disturbing trend in the service industry (but also beyond service) is that toward emotional labor. What makes this trend disturbing and revolting is the connection between bullshit work (restylized in Orwellian lingo of the twenty-first century as “meaningful work”) and the masking associating with emotional labor. The correlation proposed: the more bullshit work, the…