There are few jobs which require the employee to investigate or innovate.


That's true. But there is more to us than being employees. And in some of those we called on to critically review things, elections being one of them. And, I would say, many of us end up having a greater effect on the future by what we purchase, how we consume and who we elect than we do through our day job.

And even if we didn't I am on the "work to live" rather than "live to work" side of the seesaw.