Wage Labour / Work
If a household gets a washing machine, you never hear the family members who used to do
the laundry by hand complain that this “puts them out of work.” But strangely
enough, if a similar development occurs on a broader social scale it is seen as a serious
problem — “unemployment” — which can only be solved by inventing more
jobs for people to do.
Why do you go to work? Is it because you enjoy what you do? Did you choose to work at what you do in the way you do? Would you do your job were it not for the money?
