I was at work the other day running food to customers. I had just delivered a lady's meal to her car door and we exchanged the usual pleasantries between friendly customer and hard worker. I was about to return to my post and deliver more food when she said something rather shocking to me: "Don't work too hard." I'd heard the phrase many times before, and, for some reason, it always stands out to me. I mean, that's not something that really makes sense in today's business model. After all, according to the consumerist mentality of today, the baseline concern of a customer is to get their purchase in the most efficient, speedy way possible. This is reinforced by the baseline concern of a business: making money, hopefully through customer satisfaction. This means hard work for the employees. And even beyond the business world into the spiritual world, hard work is very strongly encouraged. It's commonplace to endorse hard work by saying, "Do e...
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