Hyperemployment, or the Exhausting Work of the Technology User

Re:Hyperemployment, or the Exhausting Work of the Technology... by mtct on Sunday December 01, 2013 @02:30PM (#6828796)

Physical labor is great because you don't have time to worry about anything else.

Vous devez avoir, dit Candide au Turc, une vaste et magnifique terre? — Je n’ai que vingt arpents, répondit le Turc; je les cultive avec mes enfants; le travail éloigne de nous trois grands maux: l’ennui, le vice, et le besoin.

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Re:Hyperemployment, or the Exhausting Work of the Technology... by ajlburke on Sunday December 01, 2013 @03:06PM (#6829004)

For those who don't know French (approximate):

Candide asked the Turk, "Do you have a vast and magnificent estate?" "I only have twenty acres," the Turk replied. "I cultivate them with my children; The work wards off three great evils: boredom, vice, and want."

- From Voltaire's "Candide" - one of the more fun (and short!) 'Great Books'.

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