However powerful technology complex corporations, remarkable feature m — Alain de Botton, Pleasures Sorrows Work

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However powerful our technology and complex our corporations, the most remarkable feature of the modern working world may in the end be internal, consisting in an aspect of our mentalities: in the widely held belief that our work should make us happy. All societies have had work at their centre; ours is the first to suggest that it could be something more than a punishment or a penance. Ours is the first to imply that we should seek to work even in the absence of a financial imperative.

Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

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