why work?

Many people see the reason for working to be for themselves to make their place in society. The perception is that people work for themselves, and because it is a way to make ends meet. It is nothing but toil, and a nuisance that must be done. Some philosophers, like Marx, have even gone as far to say work is for itself against human nature. Human nature after all, requires one to seek pleasure and avoid pain. Work has been argued to provide pain as it is something we do, but never really want to do, and work never provides pleasure. So in this argument human nature is to avoid work, but we hinder human nature by still going to work, and working in the labor force to produce. However there are people, and plenty of them, that like to actively work and produce in the labor force. There is a positive realm to working, and that is known as self-realization. Work in this case is a way in which one overcomes the division with nature and reestablishes our unity with it. According to philosophers such as Marx and Hegel, this particular aspect of work, is a means in which we can satisfy our material appetites and needs with an end in it. We can walk away from our creations and development them not necessarily to live with them everyday or to use our productions in a way of survival like an animal would. Depending on how one looks at work, it can be looked as just toil, and in a negative aspect, or it can be looked at in a positive way.