A Person Has To Work

You are being pro­vid­ed with a book chap­ter by chap­ter. I will request you to read the book for me after each chap­ter. After read­ing the chap­ter, 1. short­en the chap­ter to no less than 300 words and no more than 400 words. 2. Do not change the name, address, or any impor­tant nouns in the chap­ter. 3. Do not trans­late the orig­i­nal lan­guage. 4. Keep the same style as the orig­i­nal chap­ter, keep it con­sis­tent through­out the chap­ter. Your reply must com­ply with all four require­ments, or it’s invalid.
I will pro­vide the chap­ter now.

A PERSON HAS TO WORK
 
�            When dif­fer­ent areas of the world began enter­ing the Neolith­ic
Peri­od after 10,000 BCE, the “divi­sion of labor” began. This was
when the spe­cial­iza­tion of cer­tain tasks and “jobs” as we know them
began.
 
�       The “roy­al cup-bear­er” was a pres­ti­gious and trust­wor­thy posi­tion in
pre-mod­ern soci­eties. The cup­bear­er would pour the king’s drinks and
taste them for poi­son if need­ed.
 
�            In the Key­ne­sian view of mod­ern eco­nom­ics, low unem­ploy­ment is
more impor­tant than low infla­tion. Gov­ern­ment spend­ing is
encour­aged to keep employ­ment lev­els high.
 
�            If you’re patient, nim­ble, and have plen­ty of endurance, you may
want to give being a human stat­ue a try. As the name indi­cates, you
get paid to stand like a stat­ue for as much as $100 an hour.
 
�            Before he made his name in elec­tric­i­ty, Niko­la Tes­la worked as a
ditch dig­ger in 1886 for $2 a day, which wasn’t too bad for the time.
 
�       Mike Rowe became a house­hold name host­ing the hit TV show Dirty
Jobs. He lat­er revealed that the worst job he ever tried was as a Coast
Guard buoy ten­der.
 
�       Child labor has always exist­ed in some form, but when the Indus­tri­al
Rev­o­lu­tion began in the 1700s things got out of hand. The first laws
pro­tect­ing child work­ers were passed in Eng­land in the 1800s.
 
�       A soap-boil­er is one who makes soap for a liv­ing. It’s a tough job if
you have any type of aller­gies, but it can pay about $20 an hour.
 
�       Inden­tured ser­vants were peo­ple who were required to work with­out
pay for a num­ber of years. That sta­tus was often, but not always, the
result of unpaid debts.
 
�       Believe it or not, there’s plen­ty of mon­ey to be made from col­lect­ing
ani­mal urine. Coy­ote urine is sold com­mer­cial­ly as a pest repel­lent.
 
�            Serfs were agri­cul­tur­al work­ers in medieval Europe who were
bond­ed to the land. Serfs couldn’t be bought and sold and typ­i­cal­ly
had more rights than chat­tel slaves.
 
�       “Pro­fes­sion­al sleep­er” is anoth­er legit­i­mate occu­pa­tion. Pro-sleep­ers
can get paid to test mat­tress­es and pil­lows, take part in
medical/scientific research, or even be part of an art exhi­bi­tion.
 
�       In pre-mod­ern soci­eties, eunuchs were often able to land some of the
best jobs in the roy­al courts. The prob­lem was you had to be
cas­trat­ed!
 
�            A per­son can make up to $1,000 a week being a pro­fes­sion­al “line
stander.” You get paid to stand in line for tick­ets, new phone releas­es,
or oth­er lim­it­ed release items.
 
�            The Black Death of 1347–1353 was a major fac­tor in the decline of
serf­dom in West­ern Europe and the rise of free(er) labor. Still,
serf­dom per­sist­ed in Rus­sia until 1866.
 
�            Young Japan­ese women with good per­son­al­i­ties have found a niche
as rent-a-girl­friends. These young women sim­ply go on dates with
men, but absolute­ly no han­ky-panky is allowed!
 
�            Nine­teenth-cen­tu­ry philoso­pher, Karl Marx, believed that world
his­to­ry could be sum­ma­rized as a strug­gle of the “haves” ver­sus “have
nots.” In Marx’s time, it was the pro­le­tari­at (work­ers) against the
bour­geoisie (upper class).
 
�            If you’ve spent time in a major city in the Eng­lish-speak­ing world,
then you’ve prob­a­bly come across squeegee men. They’ll wash your