Distance from work, generalized laziness, downgrading… in the Age of Lazinessdont The Figaro Magazine publishes extracts, Olivier Babeau denounces a crisis of effort which could lastingly penalize our country.
University professor, Olivier Babeau is president and founder of the Sapiens Institute, a laboratory of ideas dedicated to the place of human beings in the technological world.
Selected extracts Ghislain de Montalembert
When it comes to work, we have moved from a logic of “always better” to that of “just enough”. The ethic of continuous improvement has given way to the ethic of the minimum possible. The cause? Industrialization first […] The industrial logic of the product has erased the artisanal logic of the work. The skill of the hand loses its importance.
The tertiaryization of the economy and the broadening of hierarchical lines have multiplied jobs with poorly defined contours and dubious usefulness: the famous bullshit jobs of sociologist David Graeber […] Second cause of the end of a job well done: its status has changed. We no longer believe in anything, and especially not in him. We no longer hope for anything, not even a better life…
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