arbeit

Wir haben einen funktionierenden Niedriglohnsektor aufgebaut, und wir haben bei der Unterstützungszahlung Anreize dafür, Arbeit aufzunehmen, sehr stark in den Vordergrund gestellt.

I want to think you made that reference -- arbeit macht frei -- knowingly, and if so, nice sting!

Meinen Kinder will sort it out, but I arbeit so hard all my life, surely I deserve to enjoy my pension...

Otherwise, you're not talking about bargaining in a fair market but about the religion of arbeit macht frei or karoshi, the worship of self-immolation through work.

The German word more aligned with travailler is arbeit.

There's been a historical need for produce and for people to work (not endure or arbeit) to trade in order to get everything you need in terms of food and shelter.

Whenever I read something like this, about the virtue of work ethic, and the vice of laziness I always think back to the phrase on those Auschwitz gates: Arbeit macht frei Working hard on something you're passionate is good.

In that way, the Grundgesetz trips over itself, and it's hard to argue for a given interpretation (so are these rights equal, or is this right of a lower denomination than the other, and how far can you compromise this right so this right can be put into effect, and if everyone has a Recht auf Arbeit (Right to have work), aren't we infringing on that?).

I don't know if you got caught by autocorrect or something, but the German word for "work" is Arbeit.

I hope the nazi reference ("Arbeit macht frei") was not intentional.

What made the Nazis' use of "Arbeit Macht Frei" so sickening in the first place was that it had been a moderately common German saying or proverb prior to that.

This is technically true, but somewhat unimportant in a discussion over whether concentration camps and torture are evil or not, and whether "Arbeit macht frei" is a genuine slogan or hypocrisy.