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> IOW, 'work' isn't some activity that exists outside of your 'real' life, it IS your life in a very literal sense

Not exactly. You sell your labor power in order to earn a living so you can go out an acquire goods to survive. You work to have the means to live. That doesn't mean it is your life. You don't reap the benefits of what you create.

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I meant that sentence as a follow on to the preceding - I was talking about the work performed by people that don't live in rich privileged agricultural societies.

> You don't reap the benefit of what you create

And your risk is also much lessened and abstracted. If you produce a few bugs in your code, you don't get eaten by a tiger or have your family starve to death.

> If you produce a few bugs in your code, you don't get eaten by a tiger

That would be ... so cool!

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