‘Working hard’ is not a virtue per se. You can work hard doing bad things, like exploiting your fellow man.
Exactly, well said. Some of the worst people/entities in history “worked hard” at doing horrific things. Didn’t make the things they did any less horrific.
Not on its own, but in my experience the kind of people who say that business owners work hard don’t care that other people also work hard, or that the specific business owner that they’re defending by saying business owners work hard definitely doesn’t work hard.
I understand this sentiment. I have friends that are small business owners and they do work hard. So do their employees. My friends however are vacationing in Hawaii while their employees are making minimum wage
It’s not the hard work, it’s the exploitation of labour which is fundamental to capitalism
My friends feel like they are entitled because they took the risk and came up with the idea. But where’d they get the money to start up? Generational wealth. the system creates inherent inequality that isn’t based on 'hard work and merit ’ but on lucky to be born in that country with that skin colour with those parents
It’s the capitalism
The only “risk” being taken is having to work a 9 - 5? What a horrifying toil!
The petit bourgeois work hard when they can’t afford to exploit others yet. They only work hard because they are buying their bourgeois status with their own labor
