Work is not just something one has to do in exchange for the allowance to do more meaningful non-work things, or at least it shouldn't. Your view sounds like es

Work is not just something one has to do in exchange for the allowance to do more meaningful non-work things, or at least it shouldn't. Your view sounds like escapism. To work is to take part in the economy, ie in the collective endeavor to produce a better life. Now of course, our modern world being based on decoupling the work from its output, maybe I'm the one sounding like an escapist right now :)