• bitwaba@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    People worked to have a calorie surplus so they could not work the next day, or they could make sure their shelter wasn’t leaking, or they could do something they found entertaining.

    People don’t work for the sake of work.

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      5 months ago

      So you’re saying people labor in order to entertain, love, create, do art, and do philosophy?

      Sounds very human to me.

      Never did i claim that people “work for the sake of work”. My argument is that humans can be characterized as working creatures who use labor to change their environment - be it geographically, politically, socially, etc…