[minikites]

The right certainly demonizes those who don't/can't work more than the left so I'm not sure your equivalency tells the whole story.

Also, working is good now but what happens when jobs become increasingly automated? I don't think it's too far fetched to predict that automation could take the place of most of the jobs on this chart: http://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2014/occupations/images/chart_0... in the next 50-150 years. What happens to our opinion of work when many people can't work?

[justinlardinois]

> The right certainly demonizes those who don't/can't work more than the left so I'm not sure your equivalency tells the whole story.

Well yes, but how is that relevant to what he said: "even most liberal or conservative ideologies agree that working is good"?

The point was that work and willingness to work are almost universally seen as good in American politics.

[minikites]

Like I said, it puts them on the same level which doesn't tell the whole story. Right and left agree that working is good, but if you can't/don't work, one side will hold you up as an example of a moral failing of character to be stigmatized and one side won't.