Bernie Marcus, a co-founder of Home Depot, had some negative things to say about his fellow Americans in an interview last December.
“Socialism,” he opined, has destroyed the work ethic: “Nobody works.
I don’t want to work — I’m too lazy, I’m too fat, I’m too stupid.’”You’re naïve if you think his take is exceptional.
But everyone else should know that over the past year we have, in effect, conducted a huge test of the proposition that Americans have become lazy.
And the robustness of the American work ethic has huge implications for policy.
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