To be alive is to be working. At all times your body is working to keep you alive, your brain is working to keep you aware of your surroundings. Work comes in many forms. A person building a house or lifting weights is doing physical work. A person grieving is doing emotional work. A person trying to solve an equation is doing mental work. A person reading fiction is doing imaginative work. Work, and all it’s myriad forms, is the state of things. It can’t be helped. Why then are some types of work more prizes than others? Could it be because certain types of work benefit certain powerful interests which means they have a vested interest in maintaining the attitude that “work” (their version of it) is a moral obligation? Nah that’s crazy talk. I’m just an entitled millennial after all. What do I know?