When human stop doing work, then they cease to exist.
I am not talking about paycheck. I am talking about spending time and energy to perfecting a skill, craft, and trade. Work makes people alive.
Work animates energy to create value, that value is being absorbed by other human to do more work, to create more value. Cycle continues.
When you do work, you have to rely on other people’s work, to finish the work. Work enables us operate as social being.