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The phrase "hardworking families" or "working families" is an example of a glittering generality in contemporary political discourse.It is used in the politics of the United Kingdom and of the United States, and was heavily used by the political parties in the campaign of the 2005 United Kingdom general election and the 2007 Australian federal election where the Rudd Labor Party used the term ...
In 1903, Theodore Roosevelt expressed, "Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." [13] Richard Thurnwald, in his work "Economies in Primitive Communities," emphasized that people engage in work actively because humans have a natural inclination towards staying active and doing things. [14]
Terms such as "hard-working", "reliable", and "persevering" describe desirable aspects of character. Because conscientiousness was once believed to be a moral evaluation, it was overlooked as a psychological attribute. The reality of individual differences in conscientiousness has now been clearly established by studies of cross-observer agreement.
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Japan, a nation so hardworking its language has a term for literally working oneself to death, is trying to address a worrisome labor shortage by coaxing more people and companies to adopt four ...
“The sheer number of really smart, hardworking people in China is incredible,” Musk said during a 2023 interview with podcaster Lex Fridman. “How many smart, hardworking people are there in ...
Latané et al. concluded that increasing the number of people in a group diminished the relative social pressure on each person: "If the individual inputs are not identifiable the person may work less hard. Thus if the person is dividing up the work to be performed or the amount of reward he expects to receive, he will work less hard in groups."