Productivity and hard work aren't the same thing, and I don't lend additional credibility to people just because they "work hard." I don't give a shit if you work hard or not. I think people should work as hard as they deem necessary to live the kind of life they want to live, and no harder. As our economy becomes more productive through various forms of innovation, we should be able to work less hard for comparable benefits [[this is why folks in actual third-world countries commonly engage in subsistence farming, which is just about the hardest work imaginable, while that line of work has all but disappeared in more productive industrialized economies like ours). Hard work is a necessary evil, not a moral virtue.
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