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...would think they're talking about the team's hardest playing defenseman. Leading scorers usually aren't followers of the Protestant work ethic...
...MODERN state makes order out of all things. Passion gives way to reason, chaos to structure. Play, to the extent there is such a thing, is to be regulated. Disneyland is the supreme expression of this ethic. In that pre-fabricated funland, the funhouse attendant can tell you exactly how long you will be waiting before you are allowed to enter. Even fun can be planned right down to the last second...
...this Stakhanovite society? No, not Japan, for all its renown as the exemplar of dedicated labor. South Korea? Taiwan? West Germany? No, again. Every one of the trends cited is occurring in the U.S. -- the very country Richard Nixon once said was being overtaken by a "new welfare ethic that could cause the American character to weaken." Nixon need not have worried: 15 years after he voiced his forebodings, and as Labor Day approaches, every indication is that 112.7 million Americans by and large are working as hard as ever, and sometimes harder, even where the vaunted computer revolution...
...there are probably enough Kathy Davises and Armajene Clarks left to keep the work ethic alive, if in something less than pristine form. Admittedly, the current high level of labor activity is not entirely a happy trend. A long-term decline in real incomes is nothing to celebrate, and leisure undoubtedly has its rewards. Even so, it is not disheartening that John Hardison and millions of others evidently feel something similar to fondness for hard work...
BUSINESS: The work ethic is alive, as Americans labor harder than ever...