Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Work is at the core of human dignity.
Work defines our lives and our place in the world.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.
I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work', because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
Life is more important than work.
To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.
The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.
The purpose of work is to make the worker - whether a working stiff or a CEO - feel good about life.
I think 'work' is anything I'm doing with intention and purpose. There is absolutely no negative connotation to the word 'work' for me - I feel lucky that I get to wake up every day and spend my days doing things I believe in.
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