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The Modern Ideology of Workism
The author says the modern ideology of workism asks two distinct pursuits of money and inner fulfillment to coalesce. "There's a social reason, kind of a cultural understanding that work is the center of life," he says. The need for belonging and purpose and community and identity remain in many American lives but they're not being fulfilled by jobs or other institutions like organized religion.