Brain Labor Mounting in History: Unpacking Symbolisms
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Brain Labor Mounting in History: Unpacking Symbolisms

April 25, 2023

From time immemorial until now, people who work without moving (so-called brain workers) are well paid and physically comfortable. So it is tempting to say, "I work without moving?" appeal. In this article, I will introduce the mounting number of brain workers in history.

Stockings and high heels

Stockings were torn when moving violently, so wearing stockings was an appeal to brain workers. Silk stockings were especially popular among elite women because they were easy to tear and luxurious.Wearing high heels also became a brain worker appeal by deliberately wearing shoes that were hard to move in.

Extend your fingernails

Extending fingernails makes it difficult to carry things or work with tools such as shovels. Therefore, a culture emerged in China that a man with long nails equal a sign of brain labor. Even today, there is still a custom of men extending their pinky fingernails in the hope that they will become wealthy.

White powder

White skin is no tanning. No tanning is associated working indoors. working indoors connects brain worker. In Europe, there has been a culture of wearing face powder as makeup since ancient times. From the Middle Ages to around the 19th century, lead was used as an ingredient of face powder to improve coloration, which led to lead poisoning in many people. Lead is poisonous to the human body.

To deliberately make one's body inconvenient to show that one cannot do physical labor may have something to do with today's leather shoes, suit, and tie attire. (The cultural customs introduced in this article also have a purpose other than appealing to brain workers.)

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