Whenever I hear the phrase "the dignity of work", I'm reminded of Jeffrey Bernard's quote:
"As if there was something romantic and glamorous about hard work ... if there was something romantic about it, the Duke of Westminster would be digging his own fucking garden, wouldn't he?"
Anything more than 3 hours of work per day, equates slavery.
I don't think the above quotes are absolute, but are hard to argue against. However, I wouldn't expect any other approach from The Economist which content's quality has been growing logarithmically lately.
"As if there was something romantic and glamorous about hard work ... if there was something romantic about it, the Duke of Westminster would be digging his own fucking garden, wouldn't he?"
http://www.rense.com/general56/thevirtueofidleness.htm