ABSTRACT
Social work is a rewarding job. To some extent, they fill up our social reality: they give us a foothold in the way we deal with each other. There is an interesting domain of human existence in which providing favourable conditions seems emphatically the only proper form of care if we are concerned about the quality of life. Thinking that well-being and happiness are only a matter of favourable living conditions, of high-quality infrastructure, of a facilitating environment, is opting for a special type of self-alienation. There is a problem with the idea that the best way to achieve a successful and happy life is to provide favourable living conditions, as this idea gives each one of us a feeling of helplessness. Quality of life is a vague phrase, even though we all want to promote it. It is a phrase that we obviously understand, without thinking, and that refers to the quality of our living conditions.
