Dear Jack:

If a hard worker is abusing any other person, hard working or not, the hard worker is doing something WRONG. These are two separate things. A hard worker should not use their hard work as license to abuse others, to put them down.

A hard worker, I have a neighbor, retired but working all day long on his property and private road, mowing, blowing leaves with that blower thing, and whatever he does, non stop, all day. He does so, it is my analysis, because it works for him in distracting himself from his… internal demons, so to speak. So… it is self serving, him working hard. It works for him. Not a virtue, but a way to get by in life.

The disease to please can be the motivation in working hard… not a virtue.

Depending on the motivation and if the person uses their hard work to put another down.

This is a debate issue, like you wrote, interesting.

anita