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[whirring_mind]

Our work will at least have distracted us, it will have provided a perfect bubble in which to insert our hopes for perfection, it will have focused our immeasurable anxieties on a few relatively small-scale and achievable goals, it will have given us a sense of mastery, it will have made us respectfully tired, it will have put food on the table. It will have kept us out of greater trouble.

- The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, Alain De Botton