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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 dust you are and to dust you will return."

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Gensis 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?

That is not true. It is a metaphor for generic work.

"By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground"?

It was talking about honest, real work.

The 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.

Not all work is honest, and not all jobs that make money should be called work. Those are the ones that I'm discounting.

Did you interview the author? I'd like to read that.

That 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.

You must be fun at parties.

Personal attacks will get you banned here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.

Is 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.

No, 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&qu...

I'll aim higher next time, sorry for being lazy.

Appreciated!

A blast, yes. Thank you for your personality assessment on a scant sub-tweet sized comment.

Please 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.

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