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Underneath virtually all experience of work today, there is a fatalistic feeling that work per se is unpleasant. One type of work, or one particular job, is contrasted with another type, experienced or imagined, within the present world of work; judgments are rarely made about the world of work as presently organized as against some other way of organizing it; so also, satisfaction from work is felt in comparison with the satisfactions of other jobs.
We do not know what proportions of the U. S. white-collar strata are ‘satisfied' by their work and, more important, we do not know what being satisfied means to them. But it is possible to speculate fruitfully about such questions.