Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life
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#2It's difficult to believe something when the evidence opposes it and keeps growing. You can't change where you were born, but if you could it would lead to a better life more than hard work.
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#3Seems like "strong economic growth" is only for those who are well off.
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#4There was a short window of time (anthropological scale) in the western world where this was seemingly true. The American conservative propaganda latched onto it and tricked people into thinking it was true. The fact is whenever quick upward mobility has been possible anywhere for a large number of people, it has been built upon slavery, colonialism and/or cheap imported labour. It was someone else's hard work that was the real source of abundance and hence upward mobility. "Hard work can't guarantee better life" is more the norm than the exception.
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#5Hard work doesn't imply productivity or progress.
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#6I’ve worked my ass off every opportunity I have gotten to do so. It certainly hasn’t made my life any better. It has shown me that those in charge rather like those below them working hard for no benefit whatsoever however.
I’m sure some fair better than others. Not so much in the lab!
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#7What does "working hard" mean?
A lot of people seem to equate long hours with hard work.
If you spend many hours a day on auto-pilot, are you working hard?
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#8Today's ethos seems to be get yours hook or crook so you can basically cash out of society.
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#9> The informed public – wealthier, more educated, and frequent consumers of news – remain far more trusting of every institution than the mass population.
Is “informed public” an accepted term of art in social science research? Because if not, that seems like an incredibly (and gratuitously) biased label.
Re: Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life
#10There was a short window of time (anthropological scale) in the western world where this was seemingly true. The American conservative propaganda latched onto it and tricked people into thinking it was true. The fact is whenever quick upward mobility has been possible anywhere for a large number of people, it has been built upon slavery, colonialism and/or cheap imported labour. It was someone else's hard work that w…
> it has been built upon slavery, colonialism and/or cheap imported labour.
I think it was actually true in the USA around the time of the oil age. I think this because back then, it seems, you'd poke a hole in the ground and oil would spill out. Oil so good that it has all been extracted already; and such an oil is as close as we've gotten to free energy.