Another thought...
I feel that people who promote the "work ethic", given the shortage of
jobs, are actually promoting a "competition ethic".
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Robin Brooker wrote:
> The same distinction should be made between WORK and JOBS. There is much
> more work to be done in the 1990s than there was in the 1960s but it takes
> fewer employees to do the work - hence there are fewer jobs.
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> Robin Brooker
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