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hiromichi
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 Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 2:41 am Post subject: raise beans and live deep |
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What is the meaning of 'raise beans and live deep' ?
For many, this was a terrible development. Nothing about clerical labor was congenial to the way most Americans thought of work. Clerks didn't work the land, lay railroad tracks, make ammunitions in factories, let alone hide away in a cabin by a small pond to raise beans and live deep. Unlike farming or factory work, office work didn't produce anything. At best, it seemed to reproduce things. Clerks copied endlessly, bookkeepers added up numbers to create more numbers, and insurance men literally made more paper.
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lotus
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Accountants are sometimes called "bean counters." It means they they count useless things endlessly.
I'm not sure what "living deep" means. It might mean that they are buried deep in their work. Or, that they work privately deep in their own world.
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hiromichi
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lotus: Thank you.
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