However, C$.$ Wright Mills points out that we have lost craft. Contemporary, bureaucratic organizations have killed it$.$ Work has become a form of labor, instead of an enriching activity that benefit us$.$ Due to this shift, work is at best disliked, and most often hated. It merely satisfies our lower needs, instead of our higher potential. Yet, Mills realizes at its core is that work can be designed to allow us to self$-$actualize.

In coming to terms with this line of thinking, we need to go beyond the question of whether we work to live, or live to work. This can provide some interesting responses, but it neglects what work does to us$.$ So$,$ how does work impact our ability to improve and develop ourselves? Does modern work prevent that from happening as Mills argues? Or$,$ is he wrong? What type of work conception $($Greek$,$ Hebrew, Christian, American, etc.$)$ do you prefer?