It goes away the other way around, too. Take away work and the average person will waste away from depression and hedonia. Easy pleasures do not give long lasting satisfaction, and the average person lacks the capacity to seek out higher spiritual values for himself. If the upper class does not guide, or—as is the case with our civilization—activily misguides the masses, then they will favor donuts, television, sex and drugs over harder to achieve pleasures. Simply citing American obesity values is enough to support this argument.