"I Was Glued to My Numbers Like a Day Trader": The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age | The Walrus

"...the most essential quality that makes a job a job is that when we are at work, we surrender the power to decide the worth of what we do."

"At-job, our labour is never a means to itself but a means to money; its value can be expressed only as a number-relative, fluctuating, out of our control."

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