recognizing hidden care and domestic labor in economic life, • prioritizing human well-being alongside other metrics of wealth, • correcting for unequal access to authority and agency, • asserting the validity and inescapability of ethical judgment, and • intersecting gender analysis with that of race, class, and other forms of identity.

high-inequality contexts make contentment even harder.

When we break down joy or fulfillment into these essential components, we can ask very specific questions and get very specific answers. This specificity allows us to get proactive and take action now.

Simultaneously, linking work to self-realization channeled the counterculture value of self-fulfillment back into the productive sphere—back into the workplace. Pleasure in work offered an antidote to ambivalence about pleasure for its own sake. And, perhaps most important, for an economic system that requires the ongoing reduction of production co