Thoughts on Work and the Work Ethic

Thoughts on Work and the Work Ethic
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Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Most of us who grew up in middle-class America were inculcated with what Karl Marx called “bourgeois” values. One of those fundamental values was that when we reached adulthood, we would go to work. I don’t recall this being explicitly taught. It seemed to be the natural order of things that we unconsciously absorbed, as if by osmosis.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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