i think gets closer to the point of the article. although I'll admit it is not elaborated on very much and emphasis on labour confuses this.

personally i would have written this article without the labour argument at all. it is easy to hammer home the idea that a godless society produces less beautiful artifacts without bringing labour into it. but i do feel intuitively i get the idea of transplant cities and industrial farmed food being slop.

in bitcoin language, proof of work is useless without a direction toward a meaningful cause.