/lit/ - Literature

>>12553490
>>you kids think you have it bad? I've worked 70 hours a week since I was 14, I missed my son's birth because of my DUTY to the TEAM, and have a festering wound that's cost me my ability to stand for more than ten minutes because I'm not ABOUT to be that inconsiderate slacker who asks for time off!
This, except unironically.

>>10293294
>4 hours
Why aren't you working 12 hour shifts 6 days a week?

>Why do we not use our lore to lighten toil, alleviate pain, prolong life? Why do we stand aloof? Why do we not transform the human estate into a Utopia, a task well within our power?
>The answer is simple—perhaps deceptively so. We feel these are false boons, that peace and satiety are akin to death. For all its rawness and cruel excess, we envy archaic humanity its ardent experience We hold that gain after toil, triumph after adversity, achievement to a goal long sought, is a greater beneficence than prebendary nutrient from the teat of an indulgent government.”