Foucault held that people love work yet work is not their essence

Evidence

“Yes, we desire work,” Foucault noted, and “we want to and we love to work, but work does not constitute our essence. To say that we want to work and that we want to ground our essence on our desire to work are two very different things.” — Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora Vargas, Welfare for Markets, 980

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the chapter’s theme of Foucault’s postwork sensibility feeding into basic income advocacy — the distinction between wanting work and making work one’s essence. — connects to: Decomposition of planning-state coalitions drove welfare’s cashification — Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora Vargas, Welfare for Markets: A Global History…, 375
• QUESTION: What exactly distinguishes Foucault’s position from the republican work-ethic views the chapter criticizes — is he affirming work desire while denying its ontological primacy?