Why I Am Happy to Be a Graduate Philosophy Student (At Least Some of the Time):

[jalden]

 "The society of the future, so said Marx, would abolish the distinction between work and leisure. What he meant was not that we would constantly be on the end of a long internet-shaped leash, as so many are now, but that in the future work would be seen not as a burden but as a source of enjoyment and fulfilment, carried out for its own sake, and in one's own time, too. Much as we moan, many academics are already in this privileged position, at least in respect of their research."

-Jonathan Wolff in the Guardian