Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not
Both article and (so far) HN comments manage to avoid the phrase Protestant Work Ethic. The Protestant Work Ethic is a belief that work itself is inherently a good idea, usually because it is in some sense desirable by God, but this idea has outlasted mainstream confidence in the Protestant idea of a personal God.<p>If you reject the PWE then very different possibilities emerge and in particular &quot;full employment&quot; stops looking like a good public policy goal and start looking like you&#x27;re just trying to waste as much of people&#x27;s time as possible.