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Does working hard really make you a good person? | Azim Shariff

TED Talks Daily

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The Importance of Effort Moralization

In South Korea and France, the harder working person was seen as more moral. This intuitive connection between effort and morality doesn't appear to be a quirk of any one culture. Even the Hadza people in Tanzania show something like it. Any quality which makes you a better cooperation partner is seen as a moral quality.

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