Trabalho: Sentido da Vida!

• Main Author: Pedro Demo
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Comercial 2006-04-01
• Series: Boletim Técnico do Senac
• Subjects: Work; Labor; Immaterial Work; Knowledge; Value; Concept
• Online Access: https://www.bts.senac.br/bts/article/view/321

This article discusses the importance of work in people’s lives, assuming there is no end to this controversy. Contrary to presumptions, work is not a receding social category. In the framework of a knowledge-intensive society (relative surplus value), beyond the old society in which physical labor prevailed (absolute surplus value), it would seem that people work less, increasingly less. This is true only in a certain sense – for high-level work. For the vast majority, work is an inescapable desideratum; in such a way that the more time available, the more work is done – and generally only to survive. Work is not the meaning of life, but it is an integral part of it. Hence, it is still key to take into account that a life of alienation, such as Marx would put it, is a life of alienated labor.