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>Working hard is a shared value across all religious and ethnic backgrounds.

You'd be surprised.

And let's not even go into the ancient Greeks, and Romans, where "working hard" was for the lesser classes (not necessarily slaves), and it was not considered a great virtue. As Nietchze noted, nobility and honor were attached solely to "otium and bellum" (leisure and war).



You can work hard at war too.


"Work" in this context is not about spending effort or not, it's about the object of work and the motivation for it...




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