Jeff Sparrow A Right To Be Lazy Analysis

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Jeff Sparrow writes the statement in his article A right to be lazy? ‘Adam Smith famously accepted that wages represented compensation for workers for giving up a portion of their “tranquility, freedom and happiness”. Many of us would nod along with that as we struggle out of bed on a Monday and count the days until the next weekend. Yet we would probably also agree that work can be – or should be – worthwhile and even pleasurable.’ (2014, April 14). On one hand Sparrow has a point about how Smith explains that wages are an imbursement to us working. We as humans although are born to work. Our brains are not made like animals. Where an animal will look for necessities for survival, we look far beyond necessities. Humans have to work in order