By Trent Hamm
I received a very thought-provoking email from Elizabeth recently:
I think you’re spot on about hard work, and it’s too often overlooked. But I also think about the changing value of hard work, too. Is hard work worth less now than it used to be? The amount of work we ‘have’ to do to get by or do well is always fascinating to me. On one hand I feel that people don’t look at their ‘needs’ in a realistic way, but at the same time there seem to be many more pitfalls associated with the basics (housing and health care, primarily).
This started off as a long email back to Elizabeth, but there are enough points in here worth sharing that I thought it might make for an interesting post. Beware that I get rather philosophical here, and if... More...
