Vocation plays a crucial role in promoting human flourishing. Vocational practices, however, are weakened when markets or the state intrude too extensively in the daily lives of people. Consequently, inordinately invasive markets and governments diminish human flourishing. This article explains why this is the case and suggests some ways to prevent unwarranted intrusions, using social response to the COVID-19 pandemic as an application and arguing on this basis that the virus must now be treated as endemic.
Brent Waters, "Vocation, Virtue, and the COVID-19 Virus," Journal of Markets & Morality 25, no. 2 (2022): 275-287