> As argued in the article - would you suggest that the life of that single mother would not get worse if she stopped working so hard? No, I would not make the

> As argued in the article - would you suggest that the life of that single mother would not get worse if she stopped working so hard? No, I would not make the straw man argument you're proposing. > If we define success as some arbitrary amount of money, we can make the correlation between hard work and success “tenuous” just by making the amount of money defining success to be high enough. No one is defining success as some arbitrary amount of money. We're both defining success relatively: you're defining it in relation to a hypothetical outcome for hypothetical courses of actions for a hypothetical single mother, whereas I'm defining success in relation to real outcomes for real people who start from different situations.