by
Old-Nick
@ 2007-06-18 - 13:20:12
I don’t mean “work” as in doing something, but in “working for a living” for someone else!
Dumb dumb idea. Originally of course you had to “work” to live. You had to get up and hunt, or you would go hungry.
Later you had to get up and tend your animals and look after your crops, this was when us humans got fed up of trotting all over the shop and hurling sharp sticks or firing arrows at the rapidly retreating herds of animals who were alerted to our presence by our appalling body odour, deodorant and hot running water being thousands of years away.
Then you had to get up and work your patch of land that somebody else actually owned and this is were it all started to go tits up in my opinion. And how do you own land – its just there! It belongs to no one really.
Then the glorious industrial revolution fucked us all over. Did you know it was a stackable offence to be found with a watch on your person if you were working in a cotton mill or factory?
Why? Because you would be able to tell that the clocks on the factory floor ran slow during working hours, but sped up during your lunch break! Bastards!
Cornish tin miners had the best idea – work for half the year and get a stock of money behind you, spend the rest of the year in the pub having a laugh! But then they used to own their own mines so they could please themselves.
You must excuse me, I am having one of those “why was I not born rich” days.
