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why did humans invent "get a job" and "go to work"? other animals don't have to "get a job" or "go to work"? seems unfair (hexbear.net)
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why can't we just frolic in a meadow and eat berries in the sunshine?

why did humans choose "get a job" and "go to work" to occupy their time rather than hang out with friends and make music and art

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[–] tocopherol@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

There's a brief verse in the bible about how god made humanity to be like the birds, free and unworrying about work or conflict, just able to fly about, eat berries and chill tf out, and man isn't meant to need to do more on Earth. This is the heaven on earth the bible encourages people to build while they wait for heaven, and the bible mentions there is more than enough for all to be fed if living without conflict.

I'm not Christian but just another example of how as a group they completely fail to live up to their own standards. Somehow modern western Christians are the most greedy and blood-thirsty people in history.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

24 "No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

25 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? 28 And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you — you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or 'What will we wear?' 32 For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

34 "So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today's trouble is enough for today.

Matthew 5:24-34

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