Work is considered the best way to fulfillment. To achieve this, we are even prepared to put in a lot of overtime. Why do we do this to ourselves? "There is something ugly in being paid to do work you don't like," wrote the writer Anaïs Nin in her diary. That was in 1941. More than 70 years later, author Stefanie Sargnagel writes of a commissioned work in much the same way: "As for all texts for which I am offered sufficient money, it has been something horribly pointless." ...
