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work is meaningless without productivity, I could work really hard carrying rocks around my yard all day with nothing to show but a sore back
by luxuryballs 7y ago
work is meaningless without productivity, I could work really hard carrying rocks around my yard all day with nothing to show but a sore back
- tialaramex 7y agoThe Protestant Work Ethic says that's fine, you were working and that's what God cares about. Of course your labour is not producing anything, since God is omnipotent all the stuff you might think of as being produced by your labour is actually gifts from God anyway, your work is not valuable for what it produces since God could make everything effortlessly. And indeed historically this was the actual rationale for a variety of punishments that really were carried out on huge numbers of convicts, including carrying heavy objects from one place to another and back or being forced to raise and lower weights that serve no purpose. "Arbeit Macht Frei" doesn't appear from nowhere as a unique evil idea.
- Ididntdothis 7y ago"Arbeit Macht Frei" was just a cynical use of language by the nazis. It shouldn’t be mentioned in this context.
- dta5003 7y agoThis is a ridiculous representation of Protestant Work Ethic.
- lmpostor 7y agoCool story, but I don't see how your example has anything to do with anything previously mentioned. Obviously the entire point the prior statement is that we are applying rewards to "states" rather than actually applying it to any productivity metric.