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petermcneeley ◴[] No.45149679[source]
If I spend my Saturday in the summer sun planting trees all day in my yard I feel liberated.

If I spend my Saturday toiling for wages digging with my hands, sweating for hours, just please some land owner I feel exploited.

It is not the work or the hours that is the core problem.

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jeremyjh ◴[] No.45149728[source]
You aren't going to spend 12 hours a day, 6 days a week working in your garden. When you get hot and tired, you'll stop. I think that is the more relevant difference in this particular topic.
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petermcneeley ◴[] No.45149850[source]
> When you get hot and tired, you'll stop

No? This is basically the philosophy of the "last man"

Many great things require overcoming the weakness of the flesh. From the moment you understand the weakness of your flesh it should disgust you.

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jeremyjh ◴[] No.45150378{3}[source]
So you are saying you’ve worked in your garden for 12 hours a day? Multiple days in a row?
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petermcneeley ◴[] No.45150510{4}[source]
Jokes aside yes people work very hard on things, even for years, if they believe in them. From dawn to dusk; of their own free will.

Work being bad is simply a slave mentality. It is because the slave does not get any return on their effort; only sustenance.

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jeremyjh ◴[] No.45151230{5}[source]
So you haven't then?
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1. petermcneeley ◴[] No.45152162{6}[source]
If Garden you mean Software then yes :)