research-worker

Updated: May 1, 2025

It degrades the industrious man, thrilling with energy, into a work-shy slacker for what else does it mean that all social conflicts culminate in the demand for a shortening of the hours of work? For the peasant, the research-worker, the artist, the working day is never long enough; for the artisan, who calls himself par excellence a "worker," it can never be too short.

Walther Rathenau - The New Society