NebulousNed

Not at all. A strong subjective opinion is often of debatable value. An asinine one is simply useless. You can have a subjective stance on many issues, or definitions. If it isn't one supported by logic, good reasons, or otherwise backed up it's a poor stance to hold. Like this one. let A be the set of all activities that are not multitaskable let B be the set of things that are "real work" A = {∅,construction,sleeping,...} His logic is: ∀x(x ∈ A ↔ x ∈ B) Anyways I think the distinction is useful personally. I also think your just a bit bootyhurt about him using the term "real work". Though you could be trying to make this argument: ∀x(x ∈ A → x ∈ B) ∧ ∃x(x ∈ B ∧ x 6∈ A) 6∈ = not an element of and if this is what your saying tell me what you think needs to be added I'd write out what this means but since you've used the word logic a bunch of times now I'm sure you can figure it out for yourself :lol: Actually, its nothing personal at all. I take online classes, and work two jobs, ~34 and ~14 hours a week each. The first is what he'd call "real" work. A small business doing anything from sales to cleaning to delivering and setting up our product. The second is what he would call "not real work." It's monitoring and keeping the location legal, and being on hand to fix things if they go wrong. It requires very little overall attention, but a high amount of knowledge to fix issues that crop up quickly, as well as to prevent them from happening in the first place. I can read/etc at that job. But that doesn't mean one is "real" and the other isn't. If anything the later tends to be more highly skilled than the former, it's simply that it isn't always in constant need. As before, an arbitrary definition of work which is based on "needing 100% concentration all the time" or w/e is stupid. You get it. Let me explain futher. The oft quote is "oh he plays runescape 18 hours a day, cos he doesnt have a real job" & the whole point of the argument is to get prove that you can have a job and still play runescape 18 hours a day. In that case, if the quote is to be taken as gospel, your job is "not a real job" then. So what is a real job? The only way to get round that is to argue that a "real" job is one that requires maximum concentration. So there are only a few "real" jobs in this world, if any. That or otherwise, the quote does not hold. I think he's just mad that he called it "real work" because it might sound derogatory to other work. His idea is sound, there are some jobs you can do that allow you to multitask and play runescape, and there are other jobs where multitasking runescape just isn't viable. The term "real work" and not real work might offend people, but regardless of what you name them the idea is sound. Would it make you guys happier if he called it "work you can scape at" and "work you can't scape at"?