Work absence and the thousand or so euros that are annually spent in the state, all alarms disappeared. Not only because of its enormous numbers, but also because of its constant growth, which set a new record in the last months of the previous year and the first months of this year.
to be more precise 962,400 people (852,100 employed and 110,300 self-employed) left their workplaces due to illness or temporary incapacity for workafter the active population list. Politicians and economists began to look into the causes of the increase in the number of inhabitants, which also affects the self-employed and not only those employed in this sector, as has always been the case.
Depending on what you’re asking, you may be dealing with a general disease of society with consequent deterioration of health, deterioration of the health system, inability to manage areas. But It is also possible, and said to be probable, that there are deeper causesthese are the types of causes that philosophers and writers are concerned with, and why we want to achieve a little success.
El checo Franz Kafka plantea absence as a response to anxiety and pain. One of his most famous characters, Gregorio Samsa, the protagonist Metamorphosisit takes so long to lose her job that even though she seems to be turned into an insect, they think about what to focus on the jefe who is not going to the workshop now. It doesn’t just happen with Samsa.
According to Kafka’s characters, they feel alienated, tormented and gradually lose their health because Don’t worry about doing anything with your life, don’t let the work go to fulfill the liberating promise. At this point it is worth remembering that even today Kafka wrote in Germany and the phrase “work sets you free” is much older than Auschwitz. As it turned out, in Kafka’s time, work soon freed no one.
Herman Melville, I know all about it Moby Dickon balena blanca, also deals with the issue of absence in his work Bartleby, the writerIn this case, however, we are not dealing with a suffering person, nor with anyone who, in special cases, consciously resists the productive system.
Absence, more than physical, is spiritual: he cares about it, but he is not willing to do anything, not to cooperate with anyone, not to help anyone. The present-day Bartlebys who also exist are currently present, so they do not deal with the absence phases and should be cataloged separately.
A very special case is Ignatius J. Reilly, the protagonist Conspiracy necios by John Kennedy Toole, que he faces work and the capitalist system through incompetence, sloppiness and dejadezdemanding that he respect his self-proclaimed superior in office. But this case was always taken care of, at least until he decided to be sick or was really burdened.
Charles Bukowski also wrote various works aimed at people who, yes, often do their work tasks, for their monumental achievements, for poor physical or mental health, or simply because they are hurt by their life and everything that gnaws at it, especially practical tasks.
Para Han, the society we live in, eats the mind, attention and support necessary to contemplate the world and our love
In novellas like Carter or Factotumabout the protagonist, a summary of the author himself, if he enters the work system, decrying the injustice of what is worth to a person for more or less precise involvement in the mechanism of involvement which destroys the uniqueness of each person.
But here, as I understand it, the most concerned with this problem is Byung-Chul Han, a Korean philosopher working in Germany, who writes about his work in Germany, like the case Kafka talked about.
They are giants Cansancio companyHe is talking about a society that is aggressive with people’s mental energy, a society where every individual devotes their attention and mental energy during the day to trying to renew it as quickly as possible every day, like Prometheus was punished by the gods who devoured them every day. entrances. But, Instead of entrances, we eat the mind, attention and dream necessary to contemplate the world for us.
In this society, according to Han, there is a cult of performance, both consciously and unconsciously, and the world demands that it be maximized in terms of this performance. This explanation would be, for example, the enormous increase in the workforce among the self-employed, which they become ill when they exceed their own limitsbecause Han subray that the real mess is above all a huge mess of yo: the hardship of one and the same.
Finally, on this literary journey into the causes of absenteeism, I must mention Iván Goncharov and his Oblomov. According to Gončar, the main cause of absenteeism is simple wandering, lack of work ability, the desire to live alongside others and grow up in the big world is a way to make someone else work, or simply not when it happens. But he was obviously a Russian novelist and not a German philosopher. It’s never the same.
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