This article really makes my blood boil for a bunch of reasons. One is it proves what a lot of folks have been saying: if you give people a reason not to work, many won’t.
Another is it pisses me off that a man would willingly take the easy way out. This is at the heart of what I say all the time, “The price of manhood is responsibility”, a real man takes care of his stuff (I can’t use the word I really want to because too many people would whine about it).
The bottom line is “guaranteed” anything never works. Think about industries/businesses/government entities that guarantee employment because of union contracts or programs like tenure, all of them are in deep doo-doo. Same thing with CEO’s who’s bonuses are pretty much guaranteed because their Board of Directors are stocked with friends and business associates. Local, state and federal governments are totally inefficient because there’s no profit motive, which means they’ll always keep going even if they don’t carry their own weight. “Guaranteed” never works.
There’s a verse in the Bible about this that more men need to read, know, and live. It was written by a guy named Solomon who was the wisest and richest man who ever lived. “It is good for workers to have an appetite: an empty stomach drives them on.” Proverbs 16:26. The verse is saying that it’s good for a man’s job to not be guaranteed because that’s the motivation they need to get after it. This article totally validates what this verse is teaching. The guys in the article don’t have any real reason to HAVE to work and they lack the self-respect to work simply because it’s what men are supposed to do.
If you want to help our world, join me in teaching and training males to be men.
What do you think?
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I think…
- This is a timely topic
- This article totally inverts another biblical model found in Ephesians 4:28 “Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.” We are to work so that we have something to give rather than to avoid work so that we can receive.
- Personal responsibility is HUGE.
- Starting with men to teach this topic is the right place to start.
Let me clarify. “This article” refers to the news story and I should say that it shows total inversion of the biblical model. Both the news article and especially the blog entry here highlight the wrongness of this behavior.