Why would I do something if no one paid me for it?
What is the point of spending hours of my valuable life doing something if it does not make money?
Why not just do what I want if I don’t need the money?
We have a work ethic in this country, a fair day’s work for a fair day’s wages. Ideally children are brought up under this plan and grow up to instill this idea in their children.
It’s not a bad plan at all. In fact, it is a pretty good one. One that has served us well until recently when much of the popular entertainment appears to show people who have it all without working. People are beginning to believe that there is an entitlement to living without working. That whether you are a trust fund baby, or a welfare baby, if you can get by doing nothing, why do anything else?
I can tell you why.
It is because those wages I wrote about in the fourth paragraph are not necessarily money. We have just forgotten about all the other wages in this world. Remember the old “wages of sin” idea?
Some of the wages are self-esteem, self-respect, honor, being a good Samaritan, doing unto others, and simply feeling good about making life better for another human being, or being useful and just plain enjoying what you are doing.
Noblesse oblige, the idea that with nobility comes responsibility. It’s one fraternity you don’t have to be born into.
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