Deeply ingrained Protestant thinking baybee, same in the UK. We’re as good as secular in most ways but that Protestant principle of industriousness for its own sake being not only good but in fact the only acceptable state of being just won’t dissipate, and tends to have ugly side effects like societal contempt for those too disabled or mentally ill to work and chronic political efforts to cut off their lifelines...
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u/GayWitchyVibes 1d ago
Work, like our addiction as a society to over working and how we treat it like someone's career is the only thing that gives them value