Apparently I'm an editor now.
Schlagwort: Arbeit
You should not do it.
He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him; he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it at demand. At first he refused to give any tests or grades, but this upset the University administrators so badly that, not wishing to be discourteous to his hosts, he gave in. He asked the students to write a paper on any problem in physics that interested them, and told them that he would give them all the highest mark, so that the bureaucrats would have something to write on their forms and lists. To his surprise a good many students came to him to complain. They wanted him to set the problems, to ask the right questions; they did not want to think about questions, but to write down the answers they had learned. And some of them objected strongly to his giving everyone the same mark. How could intelligent students be distinguished from the dull ones? What was the good in working hard? If no competitive distinctions were to be made, one might as well do nothing.
"Well, of course," Shevek said, troubled. "If you do not want to do the work, you should not do it."
Urusula K. Le Guin: The Dispossessed
Ohne Betriebsrat ist auch teuer.
Weil ein Arbeitgeber einem Jurastudenten fristlos gekündigt hatte, als dieser einen Betriebsrat gründen wollte, muss er Schadensersatz für dessen Verdienstausfall, entgangenen Freikonsum von Getränken und Speisen sowie Trinkgeldern zahlen. Außerdem muss er sich für Formulierungen im gerichtlichen Schriftsatz schriftlich entschuldigen.
Anastassia Liutyi (lto.de): Jurastudent erstreitet 100.000 Euro Entschädigung (2025-07-21)
Nothing is better than something.
The Laziness Lie is rooted in capitalism and a particularly harsh breed of Christianity, and it preaches that salvation comes from hard work. That belief system carries over into how we talk about productivity, effort, and achievement. It teaches us to view idle time as a waste and to try to constantly keep ourselves occupied. It leads us to assume that there is more virtue in doing something than there is in doing nothing, no matter what that “something” is.