"And not for nothing: I'll wager that your grandparents didn't work hard with the intention that their grandchildren would have to spend their lives working for

"And not for nothing: I'll wager that your grandparents didn't work hard with the intention that their grandchildren would have to spend their lives working for a company that never gave them time off." Very interesting. I had never thought of this... that the impetus for the former generations was, perhaps, to make it so that their children didn't have to work their asses off. But, instead, we took their dedication to work as some kind of example of how an 'honest day's work is done' and felt a moral obligation to do the same, and we pass this lesson on to our children.