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Work is vital if you do not have a work free source of income. If you do have a work free source of income you do not nor are you expected to work. Like being retired. If your work free income is derived from inherited wealth you are not expected to work because you are one of the Chosen of Mammon and exemopt from the requirements placed upon the rest of humanity.
If you're a lazy bum, I don't care how much money you have, you're a waste of resources.
Hey, now I understand you perfectly. You said that anybody who is not just like you is a waste of resources. The person who hammers nails is entitled to eat, but the person who invented the hammer or who developed the industrial process of producing the nails was a waste of resources. Like that lazy bum Edison, who never lifted anything heavier than a bunsen burner.
If you're a lazy bum, I don't care how much money you have, you're a waste of resources.
So a logger (who does manual labor) who was in an accident where the tree fell on him, and becomes a paraplegic and now relies on disability to make ends meet is "a lazy bum and waste of resources?"
What makes it valued, is in giving you financial freedom. It makes you free. Unless you spend yourself foolishly into debt, or take on loans.
Work is a productive use of one's time.
And it's a physical exertion.
Work is the application of force over a distance.
Mental aerobics are not exhausting, and so do not constitute "work".
Einstein did not work. Work is a function of the body, not the mind.
Why should I explain something which actually speaks for itself
If you cannot understand what I am saying, then it is probably YOUR problem.
When nobody understands what you're saying, that's your problem.
^Odd, the words go together in perfectly logical sentences. Do you have a problem with reading comprehension?
Problem is...they're random sentences...
And they're disjointed...and they don't support your thesis that "Work makes you free".
You might have well just googled up a batch of phrases and posted them.
And from your belittling of intelligence and thinking ("Mental aerobics are not exhausting", "Einstein did not work") pretty much indicates that you've never really employed your brain in a strenuous process.
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Originally Posted by TKramar
You must have gone to a public school.
An ad-hominen attack just shows that you're unable to argue your point. In a discussion, it's an admission of defeat.
I've never employed my brain in a strenuous process because THINKING comes easily. I always did very well in school, without even having to study. I read extensively. I enjoy word puzzles, and figuring out my grocery bill in my head. My brain is very active, but it isn't "work" when I use it--because it's second nature for me to do so, not "work". Whereas when I'm picking up a 205-pound pressure washer to put it on the shelf, that's work.
I noticed that when you quoted all those sentences, you did not bother to also quote the posts I might have been responding to, removing all context from the content.
Shall I make one LONG post summarizing everything I had been saying in a terse, concise fashion? I didn't see a need to "waste words". Why do so when I can make my points in as few words as possible?
So a logger (who does manual labor) who was in an accident where the tree fell on him, and becomes a paraplegic and now relies on disability to make ends meet is "a lazy bum and waste of resources?"
It is unfortunate, but there's no reason he should continue to live if he cannot work.
It is unfortunate, but there's no reason he should continue to live if he cannot work.
That's just absurd.
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