DEMOCRACY NEEDS INEQUALITY NARROWED

Which of these two thoughts do you experience as truer?
“If everyone had ‘enough’ money anyway, who would work?”
“Is no good to have too much time. Must have work.”
I experience the latter as much, much truer and I don’t think I’m alone in that. I say, nearly all of us hoomins want and need some kind of regular work, even if we don’t necessarily need the pay, although nearly all of us do need that too.
Let’s pause and ask ourselves here: what do each and all of us need from our work? Certainly we all need to be able to support ourselves and, if we’re lucky enough to have one, to at least help to support our families. But don’t we all really need more than that from our work? I suggest that the following are things we need from our work, each and all of us:
1) We need to feel that we make a positive difference for our jobs, workplaces and workmates.
2) We need the mix of routine and novelty with which our work often presents us. We need this in our overall life and, ideally, our work should be of a piece in that.
3) We need to feel the dignity work gives us. This is why tyrannical bosses are such a spoiler and bearable only under severe threat of privation without that particular job or that the job offers high chance for advancement. Sometimes both.
But most of us have known bosses who enjoy being unaccountably tyrannical, haven’t we?
Let me make something clear here: a boss who drives herself at least as hard as she drives her underlings is not necessarily a tyrant. I’ve had two such bosses and was married to one of them (she died 11 years ago) and I would’ve followed…