Work Is Our Religion and It's Failing Us

There seems to be an innate human behavior of creating distinct mental "spaces" where people behave in certain ways toward different ends with different social roles. Work, Home, Church/Temple, Bar, Sports Club etc... each have different contexts, and blending them is often seen as anathema and harmful and "unbalanced."

Each of those groups have their own weird baggage and each person has biases towards them good or bad, which makes the concept of one being worse than the others, with no explicit overarching narrative, seem silly.

I'd be curious the socio-political origins of this set of groupings, because it seems at once natural and irrational.

This just points me to the fact that the vast majority of humans have no grand narrative and are totally infested with cognitive dissonance between these worlds. They fall into local minima in each of these areas and the most mediocre people I've met measure their time based on how much they spend in these different contexts.

Alternatively I view the world from the perspective of: "I have approximately 27,000 days in this world, what will I do with them?"

I work 4 days a week as a software engineer and that’s working out great for me. I might even make it 3 like another colleague.

My weekends have almost no chores, because I do that on Thursdays. I have time to do whatever I want, like fixing up my car, playing around with a project, or just catching up with friends.

It's more like, "Work or Else". The homeless are the example for those who don't have a better motivation.