About work
“Your hatchet is apparently better than others,” said the observer.
for Marty Fitzpiers.
“What are you saying, sir,” she answered, showing a sharpened horse bone,
which was planted on a cutting. - Others just don’t have enough
time for small work, their time is worth more than mine.
Thomas Hardy "In the Land of the Woods"
During the eighteenth century, employees worked only three
hours a day, and their work took place in the morning.
J.A. Llorente "Critical history of the Spanish Inquisition"
Defining the concept of a city, the Jewish sages say that
a settlement cannot be called a city if it does not
there are at least ten idlers. How
it is explained that ten slackers are ten such people,
who are ready and able to free their time from essential
concerns and devote it to public affairs.
Adin Steinsaltz, Amos Funkenstein "The Sociology of Ignorance"
Beer, vodka, cucumber -
So the little man got drunk.
Orel, OSTU, TS, room. 104
sent by: Enichka
Quite often, a high professional is not a person, but an appendage to
to your workplace.
EP USSR "A sufficiently general theory of control"
“Here we come to the conversation about moral problems,” he perked up.
cadet. - The acceptable cost of risk, the cost of human
life... Are you ready, admiral?
- There is nothing to discuss here. Human life has the highest
value.
- Am I arguing? We're talking about something else.Let's take a doctor who
injected himself with a dangerous virus. He's risking his life. But all
the institute receives the result a year earlier. Okay, don't
the whole institute, but only the department. Fifty people saved
year of life. That's fifty man-years. Just like this piece
A doctor's life is at risk. What if two years? One hundred man-years. Whole
life. The risk is worth it!
Now let's take our project. Do you know how old and how old
nerves will take coordination at all levels. How many people
will be caught up in bureaucratic red tape. Ten years of chatter
and tropeology - and only then, perhaps, will it begin
preparatory stage. Or - we have the result in two years.
Eight man-years. It's not even life. This is childhood. Account to our
favor, admiral.
Pavel Shumil "Must love"
1 The donkey walked around the millstone and walked a hundred miles.
2 When they untied him, he was still in the same place.
3 There are people who walk a lot and get nowhere.
4 When evening came on them, they saw neither city nor village,
no creation, no nature, no power, no angel.
5 The unfortunate ones labored in vain.
"The Gospel of Philip"
He argued that all the difficulties of the modern proletarian
stem from the fact that the capitalist is in no way interested in
the fate of each individual worker and his family. Why
the capitalist should take care of this when he is always at his service
a huge reserve army of the unemployed? It is beneficial for the capitalist toworkers always faced the threat of unemployment and hunger
death. The situation was completely different under slave ownership.
construction Back then, every slave owner had a vested interest in
so that his slave and his slave’s family do not die of hunger, because
that they were his property. The slave owner was
is also interested in the growing children of his slaves
received some specialization.
L. Lagin "Atavia Proxima"
There will always be slaves, although they may be called differently.
W. Golding "Ambassador Extraordinary"
collected Alone Coder
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