Did Work Become Exactly What The Nazis Envisioned?

”Arbeit macht frei” is no different from the modern capitalist rat-race, is it?

As a child and teenager, the last thing I cared about was history. The older I get, however, the more fascinating I find it. Turns out, history was never boring, it’s textbooks and history teachers that were and the more I know about history, the more interested I become in learning more. While that’s certainly no endorsement for traditional education, this article’s topic is only partially connected to education. A skill I started developing over the last few years is looking at current events and local or worldwide trends through the lens of historical context. Compare and contrast the present through the visor of past events, so to speak.

If there is one thing that defines most people’s lives across the globe, it is work. If you think of it, work starts very early on for most individuals. Sure, some like to argue that Western societies put more time and effort into the developmental stages of children, through various levels of education starting from preschool to as far as PHDs. I say there’s no reason to compare western to eastern societies in this case because whether education starts in an overpriced nursery, out in the fields or up at a Himalayan monastery, for all intents and purposes…