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Life Without Technology w/ Author Eric Brende

New Polity

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The Importance of Easy Conversation and Pleasantry in Work

I think there's a fundamental definition or description of work between increasingly just think of them as like Catholics and sort of capitalists. The presence of easy conversation and pleasantry within human work seems to me to be a sign that the work is being valued in itself, for its own sake. And I think people know this. I mean, everyone loves to work. This is why, you know, there’s this weird disparate, there's this weird conflict between what we say we think, what we actually think,. We say we don't like work, but people come on vacation and they can't stop working. It's like, we know we want to work, but we are worried

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