Editing Work ethic (section)

==Anti-capitalist view==
{{See also|Critique of work}}
[[Countercultural]] groups and communities have challenged these values in recent decades.

The French Leftist philosopher [[André Gorz]] (1923–2007) wrote:
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"The work ethic has become obsolete. It is no longer true that producing more means working more, or that producing more will lead to a better way of life.
The connection between more and better has been broken; our needs for many products and services are already more than adequately met, and many of our as-yet-unsatisfied needs will be met not by producing more, but by producing differently, producing other things, or even producing less. This is especially true as regards our needs for air, water, space, silence, beauty, time and human contact.

Neither is it true any longer that the more each individual works, the better off everyone will be. In a [[post-industrial society]], not everyone ''has'' to work hard in order to survive, though may be forced to anyway due to the economic system. The present crisis has stimulated technological change of an unprecedented scale and speed: '[[Microchip revolution|the micro-chip revolution]]'. The object and indeed the effect of this revolution has been to make rapidly increasing savings in labour, in the industrial, administrative and service sectors. Increasing production is secured in these sectors by decreasing amounts of labour. As a result, the social process of production no longer needs everyone to work in it on a full-time basis. The work ethic ceases to be viable in such a situation and workbased society is thrown into crisis."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.antenna.nl/~waterman/gorz.html|title=GSD: Andre Gorz}}</ref>
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Anti-capitalists believe that the concept of "hard work" is meant by capitalists to delude the [[working class]] into becoming loyal servants to the [[elite]], and that working hard, in itself, is not automatically an honorable thing, but only a means to creating more wealth for the people at the top of the [[Organization|economic pyramid]]. In the [[Soviet Union]], the regime portrayed work ethic as an ideal to strive for.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.urban75.org/mayday/capitalism.html|title=Intro to Capitalism - Does capitalism work for the benefit of all, or is it just a tool to exploit the working classes? Or is Anarchy the way forward?|website=Our Mayday|date=April 2003|access-date=15 April 2018}}</ref>

The recession is a contributing factor that holds back work ethic, because the generation that inherits economic decline lives in an economy that is not ready to receive them. Without work there to do, the ethic that is attached to it fails to generate distinctive value. The negative work ethic and power structures that do not value or credit work done or unethically attribute work done as a service or with higher moral ideals have dissolved the ethic presented in the society and turned the focus onto self-centered perks and individualism. Further, urbanization and an emphasis on large-scale businesses has led to eliminating avenues for learning vital concepts about work. Millennials in a research identified what made them unique was consumerist trends like technology use, music/pop culture, liberal/tolerant beliefs, clothes, and individualistic ones like greater intelligence than work, they were not able to distinguish the concept in the traditional understandings of work ethic.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://hbr.org/2010/04/the-millenials-work-ethic-prob|title=Debunking The Millennials' Work Ethic "Problem"|author=Erica Williams|date=8 April 2010|journal=Harvard Business Review|access-date=18 March 2018}}</ref>