The theory of work is human worth A philosophical framework By V.S Lorian

I did not set out to build a philosophy. I set out to understand why I felt exhausted by my own existence.
The question came to me in conversation with my cousin, my father, my uncle — ordinary men in an ordinary room, talking about an ordinary word. I asked my cousin if he would feel uncomfortable telling someone he did not work.
He said no. Then I asked him what he felt when he imagined saying it. And the room went quiet.
That quiet was the beginning of this theory.
What follows is not an attack on labor. It is an examination of what the word work has become — not in factories or offices, but in the human soul. How a word invented to describe survival became the measure of identity, morality, and worth. How it colonized language, perception, and love. How even the attempt to escape it becomes another form of it.
This is a theory about a spell. And about what happens when you see the spell while still inside it.