desire to stay actively involved in some form of activity is not bound to any particular phasing out of its existence.

Anti-capitalist view

Countercultural groups and communities have challenged these values in recent decades.

The French Leftist philosopher André Gorz wrote:

The work ethic has become obsolete. It is no longer true that producing more means working more, or that producing more will lead to a better way of life.The connection between more and better has been broken; our needs for many products and services are already more than adequately met, and many of our as-yet-unsatisfied needs will be met not by producing more, but by producing differently, producing other things, or even producing less. This is especially true as regards our needs for air, water, space, silence, beauty, time and human contact.

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