The illusion of community is at the heart of so much of our contemporary society. In his book This Life, Martin Hägglund puts it best when he writes: “If we are committed to capitalism, we are committed to commodifying more and more aspects of our lives.” One of those recently-commodified aspects is the very idea of community. In the recent documentary, WeWork: Or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn, one interviewee discussed how the entire “We” corporation was “helping you live and not just exist.”
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New ideas are fragile. Since they originate in the messy madness of intuition and the fringes of society, they don’t carry the crisp edges that rational critics look for.
- David Perell, What Should You Work On?
The problem isn’t that we derive too much of our worth and value from work.
The problem is that our jobs are becoming increasingly abstracted from work.
- Rusty Guinn, In Praise of Work
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