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A free human voluntarily renting out their finite hours for a recurring deposit.
means A person hired to work for another person or organization in exchange for wages or a salary.
from From the French employer, "to use, apply, or hire," which traces back to the Latin implicare — literally "to enfold or entangle" (im- "in" plus plicare "to fold," a cousin of "ply" and "pliable"). The same Latin root gives us "implicate" and "imply," so an employee is, by deep etymology, someone folded into another's purposes. The -ee ending — borrowed from French past participles, as in "trustee" and "nominee" — marks the one to whom the action is done: the one who is employed.
- word origin
- From French employer, to enfold or involve
- first wages
- Ancient workers were paid in salt rations
- average span
- Roughly 90,000 hours worked across a lifetime
- quiet leverage
- Disengaged staff cost economies trillions yearly
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