Back from a short break, which has given me ample time to think about the importance of work. A break, however reinvigorating, is only a break if it is a break from something.
A job isn’t just a livelihood. It’s a rhythm, a purpose, a social necessity, a psychological structure, “the nobility of work”, as the UK chancellor, Rishi Sunak, put it this week. One of the great – and often unmentioned – pre-Covid success stories was that more people globally had jobs than ever before (3.3 billion, though of course they were not all secure and well paid).
One reason […]
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