In my opinion, work is one's activities to produce/create something useful for others. Either, we give additional value to some stuffs therefore we make the stuffs more useful or we give services to other therefore make their life better. The examples for the former category are factory workers, artists, product designers, and programmers. The examples for the second category are teachers, stuff distributors, hair dressers, actors/actresses, pilots, brokers and marketers.
However, I have difficulty to classify some jobs. One of them is traders in financial market. Traders do zero sum game. It means that their profit is others' loss. There is no additional value to the economy or society. Or actually the value of their job is in finding the real value of things and try to take advantage of the misspricing things, i.e., exploit it? What do you think?
What I still don't like in work is unfair competitions. Fair competitions are good, because they can stimulate productivity and creativity. However, an unfair competition hurts other people. For example, for increasing the sales of its product, Intel try to do monopoly in microprocessor market at Europe. This action harmed not only AMD but also consumers at Europe. Fortunately, recently European Commission ruled that Intel Violated EU Law and Harmed Consumers. This ruling stops Intel doing 'dirty' job for winning the microprocessor market.
The example above is an example of unfair competition between two rival companies with the same product. However, I think it is very easy to find other examples of unfair competition among people, coworkers or businesses. A business try to sabotage the competitors' plan, a guy spreads an unethical rumor about his coworker to get promoted, and etc.
I still don't have conclusion for this matter. But in my opinion, if our jobs are hurting other people, I think we need to rethink the meaning of work. If for the sake of money/prestige/career/business/ambition/stomach, other people become our enemies and we do things to hurt them, then, what is the meaning of work? Is my definition of work (Activities to give additional value to society/humans) wrong? Or people just follow the natural selection from evolution concepts? Or is it because the world is under the curse (according to the book of Genesis), therefore people, in order to survive, have to hurt one another?
May be I am just thinking too much..
What I still don't like in work is unfair competitions. Fair competitions are good, because they can stimulate productivity and creativity. However, an unfair competition hurts other people. For example, for increasing the sales of its product, Intel try to do monopoly in microprocessor market at Europe. This action harmed not only AMD but also consumers at Europe. Fortunately, recently European Commission ruled that Intel Violated EU Law and Harmed Consumers. This ruling stops Intel doing 'dirty' job for winning the microprocessor market.
The example above is an example of unfair competition between two rival companies with the same product. However, I think it is very easy to find other examples of unfair competition among people, coworkers or businesses. A business try to sabotage the competitors' plan, a guy spreads an unethical rumor about his coworker to get promoted, and etc.
I still don't have conclusion for this matter. But in my opinion, if our jobs are hurting other people, I think we need to rethink the meaning of work. If for the sake of money/prestige/career/business/ambition/stomach, other people become our enemies and we do things to hurt them, then, what is the meaning of work? Is my definition of work (Activities to give additional value to society/humans) wrong? Or people just follow the natural selection from evolution concepts? Or is it because the world is under the curse (according to the book of Genesis), therefore people, in order to survive, have to hurt one another?
May be I am just thinking too much..
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