Thoreau means when he says the line “as for work, we haven’t any of any consequence” is all work that we do is trivial and meaningless. He also means that there is not any work of importance, it is all trivial and meaningless. Henry David Thoreau is an essayist, historian, surveyor, naturalist, tax resister, philosopher, and poet.
He means that people work, but they gain nothing from it. They are essentially getting no reward from the effort they are putting in and the results are senseless and unimportant.
