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There are a couple other good answers here, and I think the ideas you’re suggesting are growing in the public consciousness. But I think it’s interesting to reflect on the idea of the job, in the US at least. Our entire economy and government and our social identity rests on the deeply ingrained idea of everyone going to work every day. Our healthcare system is still very heavily job centric, since most people who ha…
Those memes could be reduced by an equally conscious awareness of the value of the other parts of life. Health relies on good sleep, good diet, good social interactions, etc. work often hinders those.
That said, I think it’s a mistake to underestimate how deeply ingrained work is in our culture, or to underestimate how hard it will be to change. People judge each other’s status by work and wealth, the education system is designed for careers both private and academic. The extremely pervasive beliefs that struggle and hard work are required for people to learn things well, and that competition is required for survival and optimal markets, and that good financial management skills only come from earned money, and that expertise only comes from years of experience, these are all part of the big burrito that jobs are part of. It’s a burrito that will be hard to take apart. Not impossible, but very hard. Jobs aren’t required for those ideas to be true, but today they are tightly wrapped together.