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assuming the "work" as defined in the dictionary has always existed, there is a time when the way we're working now didn't exist


Sure, subsistence farmers didn't work the way we work now, with hyper division of labor. If you think it wasn't work, though, you're kidding yourself.


Many researchers (labour historians, anthropologists, sociologists etc.) draw a distinction between labour and work, as well as the different kinds of work [0].

[0] https://ilostat.ilo.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Capture.p...




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