Americans Don't Hate Work, They Hate the Workplace

News outlets are calling it a “Great Resignation”: millions of able-bodied Americans refusing to work. This phenomenon, so alien to America’s ethos as a leader in production and innovation, has authorities scratching their heads and desperately seeking answers.

Our nation was founded with an entrepreneurial mentality. The earliest colonists and later pioneers built beachheads from nothing in New England and tamed the western wilds. Both devout Puritan Calvinists and secular types exemplified by Benjamin Franklin prized values like punctuality and industriousness either as articles of faith or good sense. America itself was a startup whose value was its human capital and sweat—sometimes blood—equity.

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