With the long-standing conflicts between "active life" and "thoughtful life" transitioning from Western traditional philosophy to modern merit society, "labor" has achieved a reevaluation of its value and cultural reversal. Its absolute status has also triggered a series of social judgments such as "laboring animals". Arendt and Byung-Chul Han, rooted in their respective theoretical frameworks, indicate that "action" has transformative potential, whilst "contemplation" is seen as an aesthetic of survival, which provides insights into resolving modern societal issues. The phenomenon that modern society of labor presents, where "action" overtakes and reverses "contemplation", which essentially exposes issues in a one-dimensional cultural mechanism influenced by capital operations and production models. While revealing a variety of problems of merit subjects, it also offers a chance for the revolutionary potential of ordinary labor subjects to be unleashed. Facing this pervasive and expansive one-dimensional culture, we should re-examine modern labor subjects, restore multi-dimensional cultures and the ontological implications of different activities like. "action" and "contemplation", thereby gaining diverse possibilities for human existence.