Thanks! The difference in this article has to do with needing to work or produce something in order to be valuable. It makes a person's value conditional instead of innate.
If you mean that what we spend our time on defines us then I'd agree.
If we derive our value from our work we become slaves in a way. Also, people won't value us if we don't produce stuff. This is very true in Capitalism.
And it has hidden reflections. Like people that are disabled aren't valuable? If we derive value from work they are not. That is a sobering realization. Persons are valuable because they are persons.
Yeah, I think it's one of the reasons why homelessness doesn't get addressed more. A lot of them just need to be housed and cared for and won't have anything to offer.
In the project I'm trying to lay out in these articles the pursuit of value through work becomes pathological and gets in the way of relating to others and causes family dysfunction.
What’s the difference between what we do and who we are? Aren’t they inexorably linked?
Awesome post btw :)
Thanks! The difference in this article has to do with needing to work or produce something in order to be valuable. It makes a person's value conditional instead of innate.
If you mean that what we spend our time on defines us then I'd agree.
Ohhh, so true!
If we derive our value from our work we become slaves in a way. Also, people won't value us if we don't produce stuff. This is very true in Capitalism.
And it has hidden reflections. Like people that are disabled aren't valuable? If we derive value from work they are not. That is a sobering realization. Persons are valuable because they are persons.
Yeah, I think it's one of the reasons why homelessness doesn't get addressed more. A lot of them just need to be housed and cared for and won't have anything to offer.
In the project I'm trying to lay out in these articles the pursuit of value through work becomes pathological and gets in the way of relating to others and causes family dysfunction.