@Jedigirl

True.

Has to be said from time to time.

Please also note:

Work could be self-realization. It is for most artists, for basket makers I know, for me as a scientist, for people doing straw-insulation (I know), for my friend, the cobbler, for our self delivering eco-farmer...

Most of what we need could be realized in such a way, nowadays.

It's mainly not whether you work 6 or 8 h. It's what you do and how it's been done, because this is an important and long part of our life.

@WolfgangFeist @Jedigirl I think the difference between "work" as defined as "a task one does as a craft" and "work" as defined as "a task someone has to do in exchange of money if they want to fulfill their needs of food, shelter, social status etc"

I don't think we talk about the same things. The two can interlace. But when we talk about work under capitalism it is the later. When I'm tending to my garden, I'm effectively working too. But that's not what it's about.

@Julianoe @Jedigirl

True. Almost:
food, shelter, ....

social status??? etc(what?)

See, thats 'the problem', that stabilises the system.

And it's not just that phrase "capitalism"; an old classification. Conditions changed a lot since 1867!

Nowadays we are able to organize almost all work the way "a task one does as a craft". And if we really think about it, even the "rest" won't be that stressful. I do not fear to do my (rest-)part of cleaning the streets.