@Phil @adamgurri Yes. But we improve on nature. In a state of nature, you and I both would almost certainly be dead. (I’ll be 55 soon.)

We do, as a society, have to work. But the terms on which we work and organize the proceeds (for humans it is always a “we”, even on the savannah, our survival is as a group) are negotiable and improvable. A good society, like the Nordics, both ensures individuals have a lot of choice and control over how they work, and succeeds in engendering abundant work.