क्‍या आप अनुवादक को किसी मज़दूर के बराबर मानते हैं?

Amar Nath wrote:

प्रकाश जी आपने जिस प्रश्न के संदर्भ में यह टिप्पणी आमंत्रित की है, उसे व्यापक अर्थ में लिया जाना अपेक्षित है। अंग्रेजी विकिपीडिया से Labour की परिभाषा उद्धृत कर रहा हूँ, जो इसकी व्यापक अवधारणा स्पष्ट करने में सहायक होगा -

Labour or labor may refer to:

Work of any kind
Wage labour, in which a worker sells their labour and the employer buys it
Employment
Manual labour, physical work done by people

श्रमिक अथवा मजदूर का आशय केवल शारीरिक श्रम करनेवाले तबके से नहीं है, यही मेरी राय है।

Ramesh Bhatt wrote:

In response to the topic under discussion, it is essential to understand that, throughout the history of humankind so far, and far into the envisaged future, physical and mental labor have been essential for the survival and development of humankind. In trying to analyse these general categories of labor, I understand--and I hold my understanding as right till it might be proved wrong--that physical and mental labor aren't two mutually exclusive entities. I find no grain of truth in the notion or claim that physical labor has nothing do with mental labor or vice versa. Body and mind are combined in an extremely complex manner in living beings. Mind is contained in the body, governed by it, and mind integrated with the body that functions under its integral mechanism. A mind without a body has never been discovered so far. Starve the body and mind too is starved. Fill the mind with unwholesome things and body displays its effects.
I won't go here to the philosophy of mind. Suffice it to say that, when a lion is scheming and zeroing-in on its prey, when a cat is on prowl against any rat, when monkeys jump from tree to tree, when birds make their nests... minds are at work. A dog, donkey, horse, camel or elephant would be useless to the human purposes, had they not been endowed with the capability of being trained, i.e. had they not been having minds. And converesely, a scientist (Newton, for example) must have a body first and a body healthy and fed enough to enable himself to sit at his desk and produce the binomial theorm or miditate about the composition of light--that is, there must be farmers first in order to have scientists and other people.

In short, whenever a human beings works, both physical and mental components of labor are involved. The magnitude of wages, rewards, social respect or disrespect, etc., vis-a-vis different types of labor or professions is just a social phenomenon that by no means is final, and is itself subject to change. For example, teachers have existed for thousands of years so far, and with each generation their common prestige and social position has been changing. Similarly, concepts and cultures are changing. The very worth of human beings has been changing. In one period, for example, we had the wisdom that declared: Wealth lost, nothing lost; health lost, something lost; character lost, everything lost!

And what is the current reality? That: Character lost, competence gained; health lost, little lost; wealth lost, everything lost.

We are living under an international social system that has its own ways of classification, rewards, prestiges, ideas, laws, etc. There are cetain cleavages, discriminations, pulling-downs, raising-ups, denunciations, elevations, etc. Many people call it a system of rat race...

Humanity itself has been fragmented into pieces on many grounds. And it is no wonder that many types of labor--the most essential thing for the survival of humanity--have been given to many types of humiliations.

The term मज़दूर in Hindi, ought to have been an honorable term. For it incorporates the best part of humanity--industrial workers, agricultural workers, machine operators, drivers..., i.e., the real producers of all agricultural and industrial goods upon which our lives depend. The term "idler" ought to have been disgraceful. But under the influence of unfortunate, backward and pathetic slave-system and history of ours, we are still struggling with what the proper term for worker should be, and whether there is pride or disgrace in incorporating translator, i.e. ourselves, amongst the workers.