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First of all: what is work?  Work is of two kinds: first, altering
the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to
other such matter; second, telling other people to do so.  The first
kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly
paid.  The second kind is capable of indefinite extension: there are
not only those who give orders, but those who give advice as to what
orders should be given.  Usually two opposite kinds of advice are
given simultaneously by two organized bodies of men; this is called
politics.
		-- Bertrand Russell, "In Praise of Idleness" (1932)

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