David Brooks seems peeved that poor people are increasingly finding time to read some books and hang out in coffee shops.
“Alan Beggerow, once a steelworker, now sleeps nine hours day, reads two or three books a week, writes Amazon reviews, practices the piano and writes Louis L’Amour-style westerns. “I have come to realize that my free time is worth a lot to me,” he said…
In other words, the values that used to prevail among the manorial estates have migrated to parts of mass society while the grinding work ethic of the immigrant prevails in the stratosphere.
This is terrible…”
Whatever happened to the slavish life of backbreaking steel mining and the rugged charm of overworked bootstraps? This is terrible, indeed!
Leisure of the underclass: ill-effect of free market globalization.
Please tell me he’s kidding, too.