Building an Environment for Meaningful Work

Does your work allow you to alternate between tasks that use your hands and body and those that use your mind? Does your work allow you to experience many different jobs, never remaining in one position for too long? Can you alternate between solitary work, where you exercise personal responsibility and group work, where you share work responsibilities? Do you have enough responsibility and authority to effectively execute your work duties? Can you use your imagination and resources to solve your work challenges or are you forced to follow someone else's idea about the "best" way to do things? When…

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Finding Meaningful Work (craft as right livelihood business).

What’s Wrong With the Way We Think About Business?

It's Just Business. It's not Personal. Two sets of wishful thinking have thus far dominated trade and industry: The "free enterprise" practices of "pure" capitalism, including minimal regulation and private ownership of production, distribution, and exchange. The business school tropes of profit maximization, capital accumulation, and "free market" competition. I call these "wishful thinking" because they hide the true costs of unregulated business. These include Poverty. Environmental degradation. Crumbling infrastructure. Declining levels of education. Inadequate or expensive healthcare. Lower than fair compensation to workers. Accumulation of vast wealth into the hands of the few. When the wealth generated by the…

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