“What is the purpose of work?”
We can all go philosophical here or we can answer it literal. I guess it is just a bit devastating to see that all our life we would be enslaved into working just so we can meet our needs. The thing is the more we work, the more the prices of goods even increase. Which never allows us to stop working. Unless you manage to become super rich, you will forever be enslaved to the workplace.
Meeting needs, such as food needs, wants or paying bills which is one of the things that exist for us to survive. And to raise the status of the family as well, I think it can be done. It does sound sad if we live all our lives as employees or enslaved just to make ends meet, but in reality it is like that, there are people who survive as employees who are enslaved to meet their needs, but that doesn't mean we have to just stay there, of course we have to be able to move forward, forcing us to set aside part of our income to save and to start a business in the future. As time goes by, price increases are bound to occur, therefore we must be able to balance it, inevitably we must follow the flow, it is impossible if we go against the flow.
As much as possible we have to be the boss by working hard, that's one of the keys. Don't just let the price grow, but we must also be able to grow. Whether it's having our own business or something else, because we live, of course, we must want financial freedom so that we can balance all the price increases that occur and cannot be avoided.