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ShowerGrapes t1_j0abspg wrote

do ants work? do beavers? what about birds? there has to be some baseline where we can talk about work as being separate from other activities. if you define mice as having a job the whole discussion becomes ludicrous. perhaps that is the point of people making these silly arguments.

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green_meklar t1_j0r80kj wrote

>do ants work? do beavers? what about birds?

Colloquially speaking they do. Economically speaking they don't because they aren't economic agents.

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