Do you DWYL (Do What You Love)? If not, does that make what you do less valuable or worthy of decent wages and fair treatment on the job? Of course not! This writer says DWYL devalues work by suggesting that those who do not love what they do are not trying hard enough to find work that they enjoy -- ignoring the fact that the majority of people who work do so for pay, for survival. From Salon: One consequence of this isolation is the division that DWYL creates among workers, largely along class lines. Work becomes divided into two opposing classes: that which is lovable (creative, intellectual, socially prestigious) and that which is not (repetitive, unintellectual, undistinguished). Those in the lovable-work camp are vastly more privileged in terms of wealth, social status, education, society’s racial biases, and political clout, while comprising a small minority of the workforce. For those forced into unlovable work, it’s a different story. Under the DWYL credo, labor that is done out of motives or needs other than love—which is, in fact, most labor—is erased.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 14:00:00 +0000
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