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the only superhero whose nemesis is also the one cutting the paychecks
means a person who works, especially one employed to do physical or mental labor for wages
from From 'work' plus the agent suffix '-er,' the same '-er' that turns 'bake' into 'baker' and 'teach' into 'teacher.' 'Work' itself is deeply old English, descending from Old English 'weorc' and rooted in a Proto-Germanic ancestor (related to German 'Werk'), all tracing back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning roughly 'to do' or 'to make' — the same distant family that gave us 'energy' (Greek 'ergon,' deed) and 'organ.' So a worker is, etymologically, simply a doer of deeds.
- word origin
- organ means work; surgery is literally hand-working
- bee biology
- all worker bees are infertile females
- ant strength
- can carry fifty times their body weight
- oldest profession
- flint-knappers worked tools two million years ago
- hidden math
- average person works 90,000 hours in a lifetime
rosie the riveter — iconic wwii female factory worker symbol, represented millions of women in us munitions plants 1941-1945
foxconn factory workers — 230,000+ workers assemble iphones and electronics in shenzhen, china
amazon warehouse workers — 500,000+ fulfillment center employees across us dealing with injury rates 2x industry average