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The ancient Greeks thought work was a symptom of mankind's decline from the Golden Age, where the earth provided everything we needed with no effort. Judeo-Christian religion says work is God's punishnent for original sin. Shakespeare has Cleopatra talk of herself as "no more than e'en a woman that does the meanest chares." How did we get from those ideas, and societies where the nobility were idle, to modern concepts such as careers, job satisfaction, and work as a symbol of virtute and social status?

What are some good punk and new wave songs that include saxophones? For example, songs like The Day The World Turned Dayglo by X-Ray Spex.

When I was a boy 40+ years ago, my dad used to take me to places like the Bluebell Railway and Didcot. My favourite part was walking around the sheds and yards. As I remember it (my memory may be inaccurate), in those days you could pretty much wander about unsupervised. I remember clambering up onto the footplates of locos at Didcot (not locos in steam, obviously), which seemed so big and high when I was small. What's it like these days?