[iliketosleep]

You make a good point. It's interesting how people seem to automatically equate hard work as automatically being a positive (or even as some kind of morality). In reality, without fully understanding an individual's true motivations, it's hard to make any kind of proper judgement.

[chrisweekly]

Yes. See also a great little book from ages ago called "The Hacker Ethic" by Pekka Himanen, which examines and critiques this "Protestant work ethic".