Nick Barlow, “How did workism conquer the world?”

by | Nov 7, 2014 | Research | 2 comments

[Josh Martin]

Barlow’s blog discusses the fascination society holds today with what he calls “workism”: the obsession over working hard.  Barlow begins the post with a discussion on the inevitability of robots taking most jobs away, but he claims that workism stepped in to delay the inevitable.

Nick Barlow, “How did workism conquer the world?”, What You Can Get Away With, 14 September 2014.

(Source: What You Can Get Away With)

(Source: What You Can Get Away With)

2 Comments

  1. Joy
    Joy on November 14, 2014 at 5:25 pm

    Surely, they got carried away after reading the Bible dutifully.
    Cheerio!

  2. Joy
    Joy on November 14, 2014 at 5:27 pm

    To answer Nick Barlow,
    “Might reading the Bible dutifully have something to do with it?