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[–] boonhet@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It does but arbeit macht frei was a nazi slogan and tbh it goes well for the bootstraps folks: "you just need to work harder for a better life" essentially.

[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

"Freedom takes work"

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Annoyingly, Nazis stole each one of their slogans. “Arbeit macht frei” is from the 1873 novel by Lorenz Diefenbach, in which gamblers and fraudsters find the path to virtue through labour, alluding to John 8:31–32.

[–] boonhet@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah they don't exactly have a lot of creativity of their own. But much like the swastika and certain tunes, it's now associated with nazis rather than its original source