Collective attitudes toward work, its significance and importance in relation to other human activities, undergo profound changes over time. Back in time Labor is a punishment given by the gods for the ancient Greeks. Work that results in something (food, buildings, shoes, clothes) is considered inferior. Aristotle writes in “Politics” that: “Citizens must…

On a cold and dark evening, in lockdown, a moment of weakness and a bit more gin than the usual (which is none) made me install a dating app. — Don’t get me wrong: I wasn’t a newbie. My initiation happened three years before, after an abrupt and unexpected divorce. At that point, I was hungry to understand what happened to my life by finding out the stories of other people. I was looking for correlations and causations. This particular…