1. Wise people have reached a consensus that workers (now or in the future) are incapable of managing their own lives. Just like those stupid and willful children, they can't restrain themselves, can't distinguish right from wrong, and can't realize what is more in line with their "long-term interests." They are just "human raw materials" to be processed and shaped. At least in the foreseeable future, they are destined to passively accept social changes, and at present they can only become the object of rational changes in full swing, not the subject. Professional ethics is one of the key items in the far-reaching moral education agenda. The tasks it set for thinkers and actors formed the core of the so-called "civilization process" of later modernization fans.

2. Under the influence of Marxism, the political slogan against capitalism is "No labor, no food", and the vision of the future proletarian society is entirely based on the emergence of factories. In the classic era of modern industrial society, work is also the hub of personal life, social order and social viability (system reproduction).

3. Look at your personal life first. Work provides people with what they need in life, and the type of work determines people's reasonable position in life and society. Work is the main factor that determines social status and self-evaluation: except those who can live a self-sufficient and leisurely life because of heredity or wealth, the answer to the question "Who are you" usually points to the company and the company's ability. In a society that is good at classification and likes classification, the type of work is a key and decisive classification, and it is the anchor point of all other social life. It classifies people, lets them find their own position, respects superiors and makes subordinates obey themselves. The type of work also defines the standard of living that people should match, and defines who they should associate with and who they should draw a clear line with. Career marks the journey of life, is the most important record to trace the success or failure of life, and is the main source of self-confidence and hesitation, complacency and self-blame, pride and shame.

More and more people think that the dignity that people lost when they changed from craftsmen to workers can only be recovered by winning more surplus. In this change, the voice that efforts can sublimate people's morality is getting weaker and weaker. Now, it is the difference in wages that measures people's prestige and social status, not the morality of diligent work or the sin of being lazy at work.

The thoughts and actions it instills in modern producers are not so much "capitalist spirit" as the tendency to judge people's value and dignity by economic level. This has also turned people's motivation and desire for freedom firmly and irreversibly to the consumption field. These influences largely determine the subsequent development of modern society-from production society to consumption society.

Work, from the entanglement of life and morality, to the drive of interests, and then to the proliferation of consumerism, work has never been just work, but also the rich connotation of social status and who I am. Work is just work, and the income I get supports my life. As for the others, they are all branded with the lace of the times ~