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  2. Work (human activity) - Wikipedia

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    This may be important, uncompensated work occurring everyday in private life; or it may be criminal activity that involves clear but furtive economic exchanges. By ignoring or failing to understand these activities, economic policies can have counter-intuitive effects and cause strains on the community and society.

  3. In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays - Wikipedia

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    The collection includes essays on the subjects of sociology, ethics and philosophy.In the eponymous essay, Russell displays a series of arguments and reasoning with the aim of stating how the 'belief in the virtue of labour causes great evils in the modern world, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies instead in a diminution of labour' and how work 'is by no means one of the ...

  4. Critique of work - Wikipedia

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    Many thinkers have critiqued and wished for the abolishment of labour as early as in Ancient Greece. [1] [10] [11] [12] An example of an opposing view is the anonymously published treatise titled Essay on Trade and Commerce published in 1770 which claimed that to break the spirit of idleness and independence of the English people, ideal "work-houses" should imprison the poor.

  5. 11 Reasons Why You Might Want to Work Past Retirement Age - AOL

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    2. Staying Social. A workplace offers regular interaction with other people, which is important to the overall health of people of all ages. In addition to being around other people, small ...

  6. Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of ...

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    While the essay was an important contribution to economics and population growth, recent attention has focused on the final two paragraphs. Franklin was alarmed by the influx of German immigrants to Pennsylvania. The German immigrants were lacking in a liberal political tradition, the English language, and Anglo-American culture.

  7. Labour power - Wikipedia

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    The most difficult aspect to measure is the intensity of work, though some argue the incidence of work accidents are a reliable yardstick. If workers are laid off by an organization, but the organization continues to produce the same amount of output or services as before, or even more, with the same technology, we can often conclude that the ...

  8. Column: A CIA 'assessment' revives the fact-free claim that ...

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    Now, the most important thing is to make China pay for unleashing a plague on the world. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) On Saturday, the lab-leak claim got another dose of plasma.

  9. Why DeepSeek is excellent news for the U.S. stock market - AOL

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    DeepSeek simply did the hard work to put them into practice and demonstrate their effectiveness. This means other model developers can adopt these ideas quickly, accelerating progress in the field.