Wage labor, gardening, relationship work, blowjob: everything has become work. We work on our bodies, our lifestyles, and our love happiness. Work is the life elixir of the modern person, a fetish with which we joyfully whip ourselves. A new take on the praise of idleness. I work, therefore I am, is the mantra of our time. But what exactly have we been working on? Under what conditions? Burnout or boreout? Delightfully and provocatively, Patrick Spät puts our work society to the test. Through everyday examples and historical anecdotes, he shows how much work has become alienated from humanity - from Calvin to Marx to the internship generation. He explains how the ideology of work originated, how it drains the Global South, and why it is ultimately pointless: the automation through machines and computers.