Granted, there are vast amounts of wasted work hours these days, be it farmers producing food when 30% of it goes straight to trash or those poor souls stuck in bullshit office jobs. But this:
> Yet once upon a time, before time cards and power lunches, everything got done without work.
Is a straight-up lie.
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What straw man ? It's written in the essay: "everything got done without work". Nope, it never happened.
"Let’s be clear about this—critiquing work doesn’t mean rejecting labor, effort, ambition, or commitment. It doesn’t mean demanding that everything be fun or easy. Fighting against the forces that compel us to work is hard work. Laziness is not the alternative to work, though it might be a byproduct of it."