work - "activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result" Parent seems be trying to conflate/dull definitions in suppo

work - "activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result" Parent seems be trying to conflate/dull definitions in support of the efficiency decline curve related to fatigue or the inverse efficiency incline curve related to expertise. Most likely in an effort to negate the value of hard work or working more. Which is generally an argument for expert thought workers that want to think less in exchange for the hard work they already did in learning and keep the same compensation. ie elitism