On the Cultural Virtue of Industry that produces Capitalism and Wealth

Versus the Cultural Vice of Slothfulness that produces Socialism and Poverty.

Vic Biorseth, Sunday, January 26, 2020
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A little over five years ago we ranted on about the once prominent but now lost virtue of individual Industry in America's youth. Young people, we complained, were no longer being allowed to be industrious, by their parents, by their elders, by their teachers and even by their own government. Children were ever increasingly being transformed from industrious learners into over-protected perpetual dependents.

What people learn in their youth gets exaggerated in what they pass on to their own children. Each generation that is over-protected over-protects the next generation even more. We have forgotten the cultural fact that our founding fathers were less geniuses than they were already highly accomplished if not master craftsmen of some sort before they ever reached adulthood. Being highly skilled at something before reaching majority was common, not rare.

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