> If the only reason you work is to make money, I don’t call that work ethic at all. I call it a fear of being broke. The assumption the author is making is th

> If the only reason you work is to make money, I don’t call that work ethic at all. I call it a fear of being broke. The assumption the author is making is that there is only one extreme or the other. Either you work for some sense of meaning or you work for money out of fear but both cannot be true at the same time. Its the spectrum of these two things which allow for work ethic. If a job allows for a range of differing amounts of effort and some employees decide to put forth more effort because or work ethic then regardless of the fact that everyone fears a lack of money there is still potential for work ethic. >It’s like saying the only reason you don’t rape and murder is for fear of going to prison. While most humans have empathy, to write off the importance of fear is extremely naive. Prison is in fact the only reason why some people would not do these things, or if they end up doing so we incur that penalty to hopefully create more fear.