There was an Anthroplogist called David Graeber who has recently passed away.
But he wrote a book called "Bullsh!t jobs"in which he claim probably half the jobs are meaningless but combined with a work ethic and work being a sense of self worth creating psychological problems.
I have not read the book but it looks interesting.
You probably heard of something called "The Protestant Work Ethic"
However, I have noticed that our people in Punjab are a work-shy bunch but the minute they go abroad, they suddenly develop this work ethic.
To the point some of our people cannot sit down for 5 minutes without them needed something to do.
I have realised that there is a difference between being busy and productive.
The question I have is do we have our own work ethic? Is there a Sikh Work Ethic?