According to Marx, "... the misery of the worker is inversley proportional to the power and volume of his production..." (58). Marx seems to be saying that a workers unhappiness is a product of his production. I see this especially in the case of demanding jobs like doctors and lawyers. It seems the more one works and the more he produces, the less happy he will become. He is ignoring his humanity and in the desire just to gain commodities and material goods. It is unatural to subject oneself to eighty hour work weeks and 12 hour work days. Although Marx is arguing in terms of the proletariat and how he does this just as a means of substinence and is not making nearly as much money as a doctor or a lawyer, the same idea resonsates with them.
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good point--and do you think it is the same point that N. makes when he talks about "mechanical activity" or do you think it is related in some other way?
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