Is learning a product, or an experience? In a capitalist society, is there any real value for sheer enjoyment of learning for learning’s sake?
Enthusiasm for the material despite the fact that it may not be remunerative, or lead to a financial gain in the future?
Does what the learning entails fit what a job might entail, or enhance one’s ability to “make a living?”.
When knowledge workers are the workers of the future, does the enthusiasm for learning take on financial value?
Can someone like me, that follows his bliss, and acts from his abilities and enthusiasms and curiosities and needs, rather than strictly economic considerations, actually fit into conventional economic roles now?
Is it up to me to create that economic role out of thin air? Can that be done, or are the rules of capitalism going to squeeze out the actually interesting part of the work, inevitably?
