Despite all the improvements in work over recent decades, there is still an ingrained attitude that happiness lies outside work, that we are waiting for the weekend. This idea that work is essentially bad for us has a long history. A Russian politician described workers being alienated from the product of their labor: " What, then, constitutes the alienation of labor?" he asked. "First, the fact that labor is external to the worker, i.e. it does not belong to his essential being; that in his work he does not affirm himself but denies himself; does not feel content but unhappy; does not develop his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and ruins his mind.
I can't understand what he said!