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This sanctification of labor permeates Lamont, where Harvard students, hounded by the insatiable need to stay busy enough to deserve their privileged place in the modern meritocracy, combat fears of inadequacy through righteous striving. In the library’s confines, undergrads complain about work even when they have none, as if terrified by the prospect of idleness. For, as Max C. E. Weber wrote, in capitalist society, the waste of time is “the first and in principle the deadliest of sins...
...serves as the director of policy and special counsel for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), a national trade union...
...LABOR OF LOVE...
...more like a labor of love,” Menkiti says. “If you had money to invest, the last thing you really wanted to do was put it into a bookstore...
...increasing weight of your impending exams/term papers/end of year project, bragging about its current size until you either spend an excruciating night pushing—and pushing, and pushing, and pushing—the thing into existence, or you exhaust yourself for a quick-but-painful three hours of labor...