[ritchiea]

The comment above yours cites Steven Spielberg and Steve Jobs. Clearly the vast majority of us don’t have the autonomy at work or the compensation that those Steves have/had. There are many types of work that people enjoy and not just in prestigious fields. The problems with work arise out of issues such as:

- Businesses being incentivized to pay as little as possible

- Workers not being treated with dignity, not allowed enough time to recover from being ill or take vacation to mentally recharge

- Workers being pressured to maximize for output rather than their own experience at work

Of course work can be great for some people, but it’s intentional blindness to look around and tell the worlds workers most of us are in a position where work is fulfilling rather than a demanding stressor that asks more of us while corporate entities attempt to cut pay and benefits. You can call it overemphasis on short term thinking or a systematic failure of capitalism. But work is demanding and often even unforgiving to most workers.