>>12575642Again, I myself do manual labor and hum along through the day. I can appreciate a job well done, and like to back up and look at my little piece of work when i've done well.
You're completely missing the point. Mopping is objectively, and in and of itself, a totally and intrinsically joyless activity. Socially necessary and respectable to that extent, but still joyless. You've also missed the industrial (usually low-level) context about mopping which I indicated earlier, which precludes pleasure in the work itself, since it's usually done at that low-level compulsory wage labor tier. Frankly, the idea that mopping is unpleasant shouldn't need to be belabored, since it's common sense.
One doesn't smile BECAUSE one is mopping, which is what the picture suggests to me. One smiles in spite of it, or as a means of looking forward to something else.
