By offering ego satisfactions and oral gratifications, work secures for the worker his sense of belonging, his feelings of usefulness, his part in the human community, and his status in the family. Work shows the ego's turning of passivity to activity. The unemployed man, in contrast, experiences feelings of loss, deprivation, and sexual inadequacy. While modern conditions of work possibly decrease id and narcissistic gratifications, they increase opportunity for family living and leisure time.