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It’s also as old a story as Genesis 3:19. “By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for d
by fennecfoxen 7y ago
It’s also as old a story as Genesis 3:19.
“By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."
- saltyfever 7y agoGensis is talking about farmers working the land for food. Modern work is an invention of man built on top of it, it's a degenerate replica in terms of satisifcation, necessity, meaning etc. It's not the same story. Edit: I'd like to see the downvoters argue against the notion that some work is more essential than other work. Hasn't the COVID-19 crisis opened your eyes to this reality?
- netfl0 7y agoThat is not true. It is a metaphor for generic work.
- clarry 7y agoDid you interview the author? I'd like to read that.
- tomrod 7y agoThat particular priest of the priestly class seeking to justify their predation of their bronze-age neighbors is probably dead. So, unfortunately, we are only left with their hagiographal and/or mythical prose.
- achillesheels 7y agoYou must be fun at parties.
- tomrod 7y agoA blast, yes. Thank you for your personality assessment on a scant sub-tweet sized comment.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't respond to one bad comment with another. We just get a downward spiral that way. Instead, flag it and move on. That's in the site guidelines too: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
- dang 7y agoPersonal attacks will get you banned here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
- achillesheels 7y agoIs it expected that I compose a tangential lengthy rebuttal to what amounts to a wildly ignorant hypothesis on the emergence of the Abrahamic faith's idea of an eternal God as a civilizing power in world history? I'd rather be pithy and insinuate anti-social behavior, because a proper socializing actually leads to a more mature appreciation of the facilitation of history between generations than something baselessly contrived, i.e. an argument from silence. Also, I don't have the power to downvote vacuous comments yet.
- dang 7y agoNo, but it's expected that you do better than "You must be fun at parties." We're trying to avoid the classic downward spiral of internet forums here, or at least stave it off a little longer. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20stave&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- saltyfever 7y ago"By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground"? It was talking about honest, real work.
- raydev 7y agoThe cool thing about language is that it applies to more than just farming. Working any job for a paycheck just so you can buy groceries is also honest, real work.
- saltyfever 7y agoNot all work is honest, and not all jobs that make money should be called work. Those are the ones that I'm discounting.
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