Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
People have different ideas about what work actually is which leads to varying definitions. In her book Your Money or Your Life, Vicki Robbin argues that the only thing that defines work is that you are making money from it. The salient aspect of the money component is the lack of complete agency – not the complete lack of agency but the lack of complete agency. To some extent you have to do something to make money and therefore you won’t be doing something for ‘work’ completely out of free choice.
This clip has been taken from Episode 70 of Not Overthinking - How can we treat children morally?.
Not Overthinking is a weekly podcast I do with my brother @refrigerated. Find us on all the usual podcast providers or visit the website www.notoverthinking.com.
New episode released every Sunday.
People have different ideas about what work actually is which leads to varying definitions. In her book Your Money or Your Life, Vicki Robbin argues that the only thing that defines work is that you are making money from it. The salient aspect of the money component is the lack of complete agency – not the complete lack of agency but the lack of complete agency. To some extent you have to do something to make money and therefore you won’t be doing something for ‘work’ completely out of free choice.
This clip has been taken from Episode 70 of Not Overthinking - How can we treat children morally?.
Not Overthinking is a weekly podcast I do with my brother @refrigerated. Find us on all the usual podcast providers or visit the website www.notoverthinking.com.
New episode released every Sunday.
