What follows is an extract from a longer essay entitled Managing Despair :

The one despair liberalism has no intention of addressing is the despair created by work itself. Just like its conservative counterpart, liberalism speaks of jobs only in the most opaque terms.

From President Barack Obama to Sarah Palin, they all say, “We must create jobs for working people.” But what do they mean by jobs? Most work in the United States is an expression of contempt for the people who must perform it. Most work is humiliating, stripped of worthy skills, destructive and tedious. Even the most sought-after jobs are places of real human misery: boredom.

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