For the Love of Labor: Lunch with Louden 9/1/16

For a country that prides itself on “a job well done” we seem to have allowed ourselves to fall out of love with our signature work ethic.

We have abandoned the idea that work is a virtue (and therefore its own reward), and now see wealth as a virtue. Whatever has to be done to obtain wealth is beside the point. IMHO we have exchanged a moral compass for a profit target; an economy based on a work ethic (emphasis on ethic) to an amoral fiscal religiosity.

How else does one explain the death of the blue collar middle class without so much as an obituary, let alone a funeral or a wake? If work is no longer the point, then who cares what happens to those who work, or who cannot find work?

How else does one explain the vilification of the unemployed and of the employed who cannot make it from paycheck to paycheck?

“Wealth is having money earn money and work is what you do if you do not have money.”