my response was something most scholars of the subject already know:
> the Marxian idea of eradicating the "drudgery of work" is that work
> and play will be merged. It's not that work will be abolished.
this idea is summarized by Sunday's Google "quote of the day": "You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play." -- Warren Beatty
The fact is that the ending of the artificial division between work and play -- and their merger -- is something that is already happening for a lot of "successful" professionals. I think that a lot of people at the top of society, along with some academics and members of the professional-managerial strata, seem like they're "workaholics" because they get a lot of pleasure out of the "drudgery." -- Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles