Welcome to Litsy!

“One of the most frightening aspects of working life is that we will, unless we are the beneficiaries of extreme good fortune, be required to have colleagues.”

“Our mistake has been to confuse our own ambitions for happiness with the goals of the overall economy.”

“There is no more common emotion to feel around work than that we have failed.”

This book reads as though someone aggregated many of my thoughts regarding work and capitalism and wrote them down, as best they could, in the form of an academic paper. Reading The Sorrows of Work left me feeling understood, but also had me laughing at the disheartening truths about the working environments that we have built. If this were an owned book, and not borrowed from the library, you can bet I‘d have underlined passages from every page!