[FooHentai]

Thank you for that quote, it's something I've been struggling with in my professional life for a while now. In moving to better-paid, senior, more specialist roles a kind of pervasive apathy sets in as less and less time spent could be linked to the real world in any kind of depth.

It's possible to shake the feeling somewhat if the work tempo is high and you can tie it to some overall notion of societal benefit. I also suspect it's responsible for the manifestation of desires to move back to the land, work with one's hands, and generally check out from contribution to society and the world at large. I suppose that instinct often gets channeled into day dreams of an eventual retirement.

Similar commentary from Marx on Abstract Labour.