[saltyfever]

Gensis is talking about farmers working the land for food. Modern work is an invention of man built on top of it, it's a degenerate replica in terms of satisifcation, necessity, meaning etc.

It's not the same story.

Edit: I'd like to see the downvoters argue against the notion that some work is more essential than other work. Hasn't the COVID-19 crisis opened your eyes to this reality?

[netfl0]

That is not true. It is a metaphor for generic work.

[saltyfever]

"By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground"?

It was talking about honest, real work.

[raydev]

The cool thing about language is that it applies to more than just farming. Working any job for a paycheck just so you can buy groceries is also honest, real work.

[saltyfever]

Not all work is honest, and not all jobs that make money should be called work. Those are the ones that I'm discounting.

[clarry]

Did you interview the author? I'd like to read that.

[tomrod]

That particular priest of the priestly class seeking to justify their predation of their bronze-age neighbors is probably dead. So, unfortunately, we are only left with their hagiographal and/or mythical prose.

[achillesheels]

You must be fun at parties.

[dang]

Personal attacks will get you banned here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.

[achillesheels]

Is it expected that I compose a tangential lengthy rebuttal to what amounts to a wildly ignorant hypothesis on the emergence of the Abrahamic faith's idea of an eternal God as a civilizing power in world history? I'd rather be pithy and insinuate anti-social behavior, because a proper socializing actually leads to a more mature appreciation of the facilitation of history between generations than something baselessly contrived, i.e. an argument from silence. Also, I don't have the power to downvote vacuous comments yet.

[tomrod]

A blast, yes. Thank you for your personality assessment on a scant sub-tweet sized comment.

[dang]

Please don't respond to one bad comment with another. We just get a downward spiral that way. Instead, flag it and move on.

That's in the site guidelines too: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.