I completely agree and have felt this happen to me personally. I maintained employment throughout 2020 but have felt quite a strong pull towards reconsidering how I spend my time and energy, and how much of it goes to "work."

Out of curiosity, do you know any literature that I could read to understand the eternal debate about Diogenes that you mention? I'm trying to understand the more philosophical questions around work and our modern culture finding itself in a quite a jolting self-aware realization about work, time, attention and our liberties -- and I'd love to read some of the existing foundational lit in this space.

I studied comp sci, so really just doing this out of a deep curiosity and an understanding that I didn't get the opportunity to study any of this in college.