Katie G 12/12 Work

What is work? Well one can look at the practice of work from two perspectives. the human perspective and the animal, non human perspective. In Wagner's text, chapter six titled "the means of production" he discusses the meaning of work and compares it to that of non human animal work. "Effort expended in the indirect satisfaction of wants is work. It is under social regulation and directly contributes to the maintenance of the artificial environment (89 Wagner)." this relates back to the chapters in Ecology of Eden that I read when Eisenberg discussed the experience Adam had with cultivating the land, it wasn't a chore for him, it was something he wanted to do, something he had to do to receive food and nourishment, something he had to do to provide from himself and eve. Work has developed into something that we as humans find as a chore, because most of us don't garden our own food we find that task tedious and  not enjoyable.