HISTORY you did not know - TRIPALIUM or how "torture" became "working"

in #work7 years ago (edited)

The origines of that word is very ancient. Back From Julius Caesar. But let's pass this century to go straight to the XIe century.

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In old Spanish words you find “trabajo” that means work, and it comes from the verb “trabajar” that means "to work" and this word comes from the Latin “tripaliare“.
Tripaliare is a derived word from “tripalium” which meant “three sticks”. All of this words refer to suffering...
A tripalium was a yoke made with three sticks which were tied to slaves to beat them as a way of punishment.

Back then they used the word “tripalium” for activities that implies physical pain. Most of the population worked in farming.
They had to do physical efforts as much as at the end of the day, people would feel as if they had been beaten. Torture. Like said above... You can find a similarity between another old word also used today which is "labor" that means work and giving birth. Both of them are painful. Torture.

In the XVIe century, it finally became the word as we all know it, work.
To designate the action of "carrying on an activity for the purpose of earning a living"; At the same time, the word work has taken on the ordinary meaning of "regular activity allowing subsistence" (subsistence!!!) and "occupation", while continuing to designate an effort that is made to accomplish a task. "If this" effort provided "is important and painful, so we can also give it the name of labor....

Today, working means a slave working to buy another slave's work. We don't buy useful things anymore. We work to buy things that are shown as indispensable while it's not. And the cost of life became everywhere to expensive to be limited to work only for what we need. Because we became sheeps, working to buy things that the system make us believe we need. The last iPhone, the last super big flat TV, the most beautiful car... And the list goes on.

So today, stop for a minute while working and think. Think how a torture means became your everyday life and think again.

You are sheep number 568300JU89895 and your only purpose on this planet is to work, to buy another slave's work, to make the elite as rich as fuck.

Good day.

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