Economists Are Obsessed with Job Creation – How About Less Work? (2017)

We’d all be better off if people doing useless or harmful jobs were playing, instead, and we all shared equally the necessary work and the benefits that accrue from it. It surprises many people to learn that, on the time scale of human biological history, work is a new invention. They decline because our schools, which value work and devalue play, drill them out of people; and then tedious jobs and careers continue to drill them out.

Source: evonomics.com