I was talking to a friend, and he was complaining about his job. He had this whole thing about how… (opens in new tab)

“Oh, yeah,” I said. “Marx called that alienation of labor.”“What?” he asked.“You can google that phrase, ‘alienation of labor’ and you’ll get a ton of people talking about it,” I said. “It’s been a talking point for like, almost two hundred years.”“They’re Marxists though?” he asked.“Most of them, yeah,” I said.He looked off into the distance, thinking about that. I was waiting for him to ask some questions, or for him to talk more about what he was feeling. “Well,” he said. “I guess I’ll get...