Work

Often used as a term to refer to tiresome human labor, ‘Work’ is operation, operation is production, production produces produce—this is called generation.
Generators do work which produces power. Work? Who the hell wants to work? Work is anti-hedonic by definition. If it didn’t have negative utility, it wouldn’t be work. — Mencius MoldbugIts root is *werg- "to do."
Work is a synonym for labour, a close one. The lowest-paid class of workers is erreneously called a Working Class, as all classes are working classes in the most general sense. Frankly, anything operational does work. Vainglorifiers of the lowest-paid have been called Workerists.
In Physics, a force is said to do work if, when acting, there is a displacement of the point of application in the direction of the force.
Icelandic for work ‘vinna’ also means ‘to win’. It is extremely closely related to the concept of Life, cf. Latin vita which means Life.Old English weorc, worc "something done, discreet act performed by someone, action (whether voluntary or required), proceeding, business; that which is made or manufactured, products of labor," also "physical labor, toil; skilled trade, craft, or occupation; opportunity of expending labor in some useful or remunerative way;" also "military fortification," from Proto-Germanic *werkan "work" (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Dutch werk, Old Norse verk, Middle Dutch warc, Old High German werah, German Werk, Gothic gawaurki).
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=== Social theory ===
Marx conceives of labor as form-giving activity. This is criticized for presupposing a "productivist" model of labor which regards work that creates a material product — craft or industrial work — as the paradigm for all work (Habermas, Benton, Arendt).Oct, 2007. «The Concept of Labor: Marx and His Critics». Sean Sayers. Vol. 71, No. 4, pp. 431-454. JOURNAL ARTICLE.. Published by: Guilford Press
Marxian ideas of Post-Official work
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