Episode 231: Low Anthropology Is My Love Language
The Mockingcast
Work Is the Necessary Evil
In textbook economics, leisure is the good stuff and work is the necessary evil. How have humans reached the point where they accept that even miserable, unnecessary work is actually morally superior to no work at all? Peter Koi reflects on a smart piece of psychological research that he recently came across called the moralization of effort. Our brains today are wired to perceive effort as evidence of morality.
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