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I'd like to agree and note that assuming we get to post-scarcity conditioning quality of life on work will be a bad definition.

On the other hand I recall, as a PhD student, David Cox lightly napping in the audience of a conference (he'd have been about 90), only to wake up for the questions and fire off some insights. So there is certainly some merit in the theory of a nexus between 'meaningful work' and living a long and engaged life, at least for some people.



QUALY is not conditioned on work productivity, Ezekiel Emanuel has done a poor job of representing it to the public.

The truth of the matter for most people though is that if they are unable to do meaningful (to them) work this leads to depression.

For the anecdote given by the author, the grandmother could perform meaningful work (counseling) still.




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