Episode 231: Low Anthropology Is My Love Language
The Mockingcast
The Moralization of Effort
The moralization of effort is someone a better person if they work hard, even if their work is the same in its impact as someone else who doesn't work as hard. The importance of workers may signal moral worth through structured drudgery. We fear it has also created harmful incentive structures that reward workaholism and joyless devotion to mundane efforts That produce little value beyond the signal of effortful engagement.
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