Commentary Most of us who grow up in middle-class America are inculcated with what Karl Marx called “bourgeois” values. One of the fundamental values was that when we reached adulthood, we would go to work. I don’t recall this being explicitly taught. It seemed to be the natural order of things that we unconsciously absorbed as if by osmosis. The need for us to get a full-time job in adulthood and hopefully some part-time jobs during our teen years was a self-evident requirement of life. Since nobody is born into this world accompanied by a lifelong supply of the things that sustain us, we need to figure out a way to obtain those things. Since few of us in these modern times know how to grow food, make clothes from scratch, build homes and cars, etc., etc., we need to procure those things from others. There are two options for …
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