"Overall, meaningless work commits a Spiritual Violence against a person. It's an attack on something not just physical, not just mental, but on something that

"Overall, meaningless work commits a Spiritual Violence against a person. It's an attack on something not just physical, not just mental, but on something that is the essence of being. It wears away our sense of self." The author was unto something big, but didn't expand this idea. I'll try to explain it this way. The only true reason we live at all is we desire self expression. Iirc, the eastern literature calls it tanha - the desire for material existence. However if this outlet is clogged, the desire for self expression doesn't go away. Like a stream of water, when it encounters an obstacle, it takes a different path or overflows in a disorganised manner. The latter corresponds to spiritual self-destruction.