The question seems trivial, but is important. We usually think that work has as purpose our subsistence, and in our society this is true. This idea isn't accepted by some thinkers, for example Hegel and Marx, that thought that work is the way in which the human being gets the total self awareness, in fact the human being when does anything with passion and commitment discovered something on himself. The work in our society has the purpose of to get money, and this money needed to continue our existence that is dedicated to gain, and so we survive but we don't live. Money aren't bad, but we must not let to posses ourselves by things, because this behavior creates the idea that is normal that a human being that doesn't want to be exploited died. We must understand that work is a way to know ourselves, and so we must recover ideas of Marx, that isn't the philosopher of Stalinism, but is the philosopher of FREEDOM. The society made chain that aren't natural, and ideas of economic neoliberalism are proved as false. Is hard to realize Marx's ideas, but to research a solution of this problem is a important first step. Thinkers as Lenin (with his incredible political ideas that were betrayed by Stalin), Habermas, Marcuse, Adorno, Arendt, Heidegger, Simon Weil and Horkheimer improved Marx's ideas and analysis. Other thinkers as Keynes, Sen and Nussbaum had great ideas that are less radical. A thing that could caused a improvement of our society is the automation, if this thing will be supported by right laws; and so we could reach the society in which "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"
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