“Idle hands are the devil’s playground” has long been a mantra in this country. Republican conservatives truly believe that it is better to make everyone dig holes and fill them up again than to “do nothing”. Otherwise those folks will just lounge around watching TV, making love, and drinking beer. Perhaps our fundamental religious elements should be reminded that such was presumably exactly the case in the garden of Eden before the “Fall.”
Work can be defined in two ways. One is as anything that a person does not want to do. The other is anything for which someone is paid. Often, but not always, those are congruent. The happiest people are those who find _ like me (and coding) or many sports stars – that they truly enjoy what they make money at. Even the wealthy professionals who brag about their long toil spend hours playing golf, eating lavish meals, or sailing yachts as they conduct “useful” business .
The biggest problems are in working out what is truly socially useful and how to pay for it, and what to do for sporadic or short-term or long ago labor. An influencer who may have had six months popularity, – rideshare driver or – again – aging athletes. And is an “influencer” popularizing multi-thousand dollar handbags really doing more productive socially useful work than a daycare worker?
In other words there are a lot of gaps in what seems to be an obvious and simple truth. In our extremely complex world, slogans of any type tend to obscure more than they instruct .
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