Short of being completely disabled or extremely young or elderly, we must work. From the lowliest worm to the sparrow to kings and queens, we have to get after our daily labor. In one form or other, directly or indirectly, we bring the vegetables in from the fields, the meat from the plain, the water from the river, going about our appointed tasks to keep ourselves fed and hydrated. Call it Darwin’s first imperative: Do what we must to get food and liquid down our gullets and survive for another day. *** *** Here in the West, we often conflate…