> Being able to see ourselves as something beyond our job (our means of survival) is a luxury. Being able to see ourselves as something beyond our job is the e

> Being able to see ourselves as something beyond our job (our means of survival) is a luxury. Being able to see ourselves as something beyond our job is the examined life. It what makes life worth living. We should be incredibly skeptical of a social system whose default is to have individuals primary identify by the work they do. That necessarily sets people up for continuous identity foreclosure and psychic famine in a self re-enforcing feedback loop. Frankly it's cringe to primarily identify by profession.