I found myself nodding along until the conclusion: > If you have the capability to contribute work in some way – physical strength, knowledge, or mental acuity

I found myself nodding along until the conclusion: > If you have the capability to contribute work in some way – physical strength, knowledge, or mental acuity, then you have a moral responsibility to do so There is more to life than work and we should not e.g. judge retirees just because we could perhaps still squeeze a few dollars more worth of labor out of them. We can simply appreciate the intrinsic value of human life instead. It is surprising to see the author making this blunder after sharing the following insight: > The ideal of finding our value in work and making something of ourselves through the sweat of our brow is a noble one in many ways but contains a corrosive core as well. If you center your value entirely in how appreciative others are of the contributions you make, and in what you can provide, you ignore the actual concept of community, and you potentially build a worldview that denigrates those who you view as not contributing “enough” in your manner. The exact argument applies to what the author proposed as the solution.