Work: virtue or vice?

Anthony Boulton invites us to work to live

The protest outside St Paul’s Cathedral has raised the public’s consciousness of the inequalities of our present economic system, yet even the protesters themselves admitted that they had no solutions to the problem, nor does it seem has anyone else. Could it be, therefore, that there is no solution? And would this hypothesis, if entertained, lead us to the inevitable conclusion that our present way of life is hopelessly skewed and unsustainable, and compel us to try to ascertain how we came to be in this woeful plight?

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