We need to work so someone can oppress us. How else would we get our fill of oppression?

Working is a fact that has been present in our lives since time immemorial. I was always taught that work builds a man and allows you to fulfill your dreams.

Perhaps this question should be linked to a more fundamental question, “Why Exist?” or another leading question “Would you work/what work- if you won $100 million in lottery” or "everything's being already given to you in a siver platter?"

The view of these socialist is just misleading! We work because without work, the human existence won't be more than an animal. Even the animals work. Have you seen ants gathering for winters or rainy season?

We have to work because we are not self-sufficient. Our GrandPas didn't really work for The Man, they worked on their farms and lived off the land. Then the government happen and taxes and regulations. You can't be Homesteading anymore like people widely used to. That's why you need to trade your time and effort for wages (which will be unlawfully taxed). I will not get into the "my God is better than yours debate" but some people do for religious reasons.

I hope people on SN are not opposed to hearing a traditional Christian perspective.

The Bible says God created man and woman in his image, and that God Himself is a worker, taking six days to create the universe and taking the seventh day to rest.

Indeed, God created man to participate in the cultivation of his works. Genesis 2 says (paraphrasing), "When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant had yet sprung up... because there was no man to work the ground... the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life... the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it."

So, from the very beginning, humans were created by God to cultivate his work, transforming resources from a lower valued, raw state to a higher valued, developed state. Thus, Christian economic thought places a high spiritual value on vocation. Work is not something to be avoided, but is fundamental to human nature (as is resting from the work).

most people work to survive, personally i work to break financial limitation