The topic of mental health and work is no stranger to this site as I’ve discussed it a few times either personally or more generally. A particular phenomenon within work itself however, workaholism, hasn’t really been discussed (surprisingly) and certainly not in any detail when it comes to its correspondence to various mental health issues.…
(Nick’s Notes: This is the fourth of four articles on Isaac Morehouse’s ideas on work. Parts one through three can be found here, here and here) We’ve gone through quite a bit of Isaac’s ideas on work and I wanted to finish off as strongly as possible. So with that in mind I chose two…
(Nick’s Notes: This is the third part of my four part series on Isaac Morehouse’s ideas on work from his blog, you can find part one here and part two here) Isaac has a podcast episode on whether we should think of imagination as work. Now, it seems pretty clear at first glance that I’d…
I first met Isaac at the Philadelphia Students for Liberty conference last year. He gave a great presentation on why electoral politics were a waste of time. I remember it being well argued and made up of both philosophical and economic arguments that seemed pretty solid to me. It was decidingly more mixed with the…
Reading, “The Right Not to Work: Power and Disability” I was struck in particular by the notion of shame and not working. Although I may be impaired in some sense because I have aspergers and am thus unable to cope with certain things better, I’m unsure I’d consider myself “disabled” in the sense that this…