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Trading eight hours of your one life for money to buy back two of them.
means Engaged in activity, paid or not, that produces something or earns a living.
from From Old English 'weorc' (work, deed, action), tracing back to a very old Germanic root — possibly related to the Greek 'ergon,' the same root buried in words like 'energy' and 'organ.' The '-ing' is just Old English's ordinary way of turning a verb into an ongoing action — so 'working' simply means 'the deed, still being done.'
- etymology
- old english weorc meant both labor and suffering
- meeting math
- average worker spends 5 years total in meetings
- productivity peak
- most people are focused only 2.5 hours daily
- irony
- remote work made the workday longer, not shorter