The hedonistic model's emphasis on happiness as want-satisfaction makes this view quite compatible with the assumptions of neoclassical economics. Individuals are free to choose their own preferences and the goal of economic activity is to satisfy preferences. Individuals exchange their labor in the market as a means for obtaining satisfaction/Work, for the most part, is simply a means to obtain our ends. Perhaps it is not surprising, therefore, that in a world greatly influenced by neoclassical economics, the most common view of work share? its assumption about human happiness. It is also perhaps not surprising that a workplace structured and administered according to the principles of neoclas¬sical economics—a workplace in which employees work simply to earn wages and employers treat them simply as means to productive ends—is a workplace that gives rise to feelings of resentment and disaffection. From that perspective, work has no value in its own right; it is simply a necessary price that must be tolerated to achieve other ends.