Is There a Moral Component to Work?

In many countries we have a fetish about work. We think a person who's working a job, even if it's a b s job, is in some ways a better human being than the person who's just hanging out. It seems like there's a moral component to this whole belief structure. I think this cannot be understood except through looking at the history of, for one thing, religion. They said, you want to be like god, fine, be like god. You can create the world, but it'll be painful and miserable. So all these ideas, work as production, work as punishment, work as necessary to attain maturity, all can at bundled together.