Date: August 25th, 2018 12:56 PM Author: jet-lagged elastic band
Hard work is one of the only things worthy of respect, and I don’t just mean manual labor. Writing a symphony is hard work, solving a murder is hard work. When you see a leisure class cad lounging in some tropical paradise his entire life it may inspire envy but never respect.
Date: August 25th, 2018 1:05 PM Author: jet-lagged elastic band
There is an undeniable tinge of pathos whenever a man has to work under other men. So even if he works hard it still doesn’t amount to anything tangible. That’s the sad reality of managerial capitalism and why I wouldn’t be sad to see it go.
Date: August 25th, 2018 4:51 PM Author: mind-boggling faggotry state
in the US, there used to be a visible and rational relationship between intensity of effort and volume/quality of output, particularly in ventures like farming. a young country with a lot of undeveloped capacity paired well with an ethos valorizing "hard work."
now? LOL. things are so attenuated that there is a good chance your "hard work" not only has no ultimate positive contribution to society, but that it actually helps prop up a corrupt/unsustainable system and thereby prevents reform.