People who work for a living are not always forced to labor with their hands.

Do you think wise men labor so ?" Ivan replied: "Well, what do fools know about it?
We all work with our hands." "And for that reason you are fools," replied the devil.

"I can teach you how to use your brains, and you will find such labor more beneficial." Ivan was surprised at hearing this, and said: "Well, it is perhaps not without good reason that we are called fools." "It is not so easy to work with the brain," the old devil said.
"You will not give me anything to eat because my hands have not the appearance of being toil-hardened, but you must understand that it is much harder to do brain-work, and sometimes the head feels like bursting with the effort it is forced to make." "Then why do you not select some light work that you can perform with your hands ?" Ivan asked.
The devil said: "I torment myself with brain-work because I have pity for you fools, for, if I did not torture myself, people like you would remain fools for all eternity.

I have exercised my brain a great deal during my life, and now I am able to teach you." Ivan was greatly surprised and said: "Very well; teach us, so that when our hands are tired we can use our heads to replace them." The devil promised to instruct the people, and Ivan announced the fact throughout his kingdom.
The devil was willing to teach all those who came to him how to use the head instead of the hands, so as to produce more with the former than with the latter.
In Ivan's kingdom there was a high tower, which was reached by a long, narrow ladder leading up to the balcony, and Ivan told the old devil that from the top of the tower every one could see him.
So the old devil went up to the balcony and addressed the people.
The fools came in great crowds to hear what the old devil had to say, thinking that he really meant to tell them how to work with the head.
But the old devil only told them in words what to do, and did not give them any practical instruction.

He said that men working only with their hands could not make a living.