[ExI] retrainability of plebeians

Rafal Smigrodzki rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com
Thu Apr 30 08:11:06 UTC 2009


On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 3:43 AM, Emlyn <emlynoregan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ### "chore", "job", "task", "labor" vs. "play", "entertainment",
>> "amusement", "hobby"? Note the connotations of seriousness and
>> possibly usefulness with the former and the association of the latter
>> with frivolity. There are occasional diversions that are useful and
>> lots of jobs that can be useless but overall if you want usefulness
>> and productivity you are talking about jobs, not fun and games.
>>
>> Rafal
>
> Well there's the problem. When people aren't doing paid labour, it
> doesn't mean they are just engaged in "fun and games", demonstrably
> so. So, that kind of language doesn't fit.

### So what do 95% humans do when not paid? You would be hard-pressed
to find them engaged in many activities of use to strangers.

Rafal



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