Productivity in the Story of Egyptian Slavery

I think it's really interesting to situate productivity in the story of Egyptian slavery because when you actually read the narrative in the Bible, it's very much like Pharaoh's like, you're not going to get straw. We're not here, but you're going to have to make the same amount of bricks. And it is so interesting, isn't it, that for as dehumanizing as slavery was, Israel was constantly pining for Egypt. You know, when you read the wilderness narratives, it's like, can't we just go back? But I do think that productivity is very dehumanizing. I think it makes us feel as if we're not doing it right, life being