| > The secularization of society isn't due to work pressure, nor is the disconnection from your local community. The latter is due to the pressures and competition of the modern world Where do those competitions and pressures come from? If someone feels a strong pressure to make a career for themselves, to get out of their hometown -- that doesn't read to you as being something that's related to the status we've placed on career and work? What do the stats say about why people typically move away from their hometown communities? I'm going to guess that job opportunities will be a pretty large proportion of answers in any survey about that. > multiculturalism that creates barriers between people geographically close people Hm. > We increasingly validate ourselves through our jobs because of the loss of other means of validation. I disagree, but sure. It's hard to clearly establish cause and effect when looking at correlations, and there are multiple ways to read the correlation between a decline in social institutions and an increase in people using work to self-actualize. I'll grant that. ---- > You gave my claims a moral prognosis, not me. I only defended against unproductive valence claims. You very literally, directly compared people who have trouble finding meaning outside of work to idle children. |