Michael, following Thaddeus
Russell, thinks the work ethic we've been taught to imbibe is destructive.
It's suffused with moralism and shame.
Striving for achievement is one thing. But this is different.
The richest people in America, like Rockefeller and Carnegie, scarcely enjoyed their wealth. They worked and worked. Rockefeller spent a lot of time in his study. His kids wore hand-me-down clothes.
Even today, the American rich work all the time.
Russell says this is an American phenomenon, that the rich in other countries aren't this way.
Now:
There's one part of my work that I absolutely hate.
It's a part of your work, too, and you probably hate it as well.
I don't think of myself as especially meritorious because I do it. I don't feel like the harder I work and the more miserable the work, the better a person I am.
To heck with that.
If I could find an easier way of doing it -- a way I might (for shame!) actually enjoy -- I would grab it in a second.
Well, I did.
And I want you to have it, too.
Curious?
Enjoy (there's that forbidden word):
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