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'''This secular view of work is the second definition of work''', and those who, like [[Ayn Rand]], hold to it have either no care or no comprehension of its long-term consequences. It is against those consequences that God commanded capital punishment within His own nation for those who willfully violate the Sabbath by so much as toiling and trading for personal gain on the Sabbath.

'''This secular view of work is the second definition of work''', and those who, like [[Ayn Rand]], hold to it have either no care or no comprehension of its long-term consequences. It is against those consequences that God commanded capital punishment within His own nation for those who willfully violate the Sabbath by so much as toiling and trading for personal gain on the Sabbath.

This "Divine Right" view of the work ethic is in error because it makes kings of those who merely are so driven to excel in worldly terms as to hold all individuals to account who fail to compete as capably, or at least as selfishly, as they do, and therefore are "unworthy" of consideration beyond what they have "earned". This is most notably the view of [[India]], which has functioned as an epitome of casts since ancient times. It also is notably the view of [[Ayn Rand]] and her disciples.

This "Divine Right" view of the work ethic is in error because it makes kings of those who merely are so driven to excel in worldly terms as to hold all individuals to account who fail to compete as capably, or at least as selfishly, as they do, and therefore are "unworthy" of consideration beyond what they have "earned". This is most notably the view of [[India]], which has functioned as an epitome of castes since ancient times. It also is notably the view of [[Ayn Rand]] and her disciples.

'''The third definition of work''' is that which distinguishes between every important factor of the nature of production, beginning with the kind of production intended for the original, unfallen world. This third view of work holds that human individuals, as such, are inherently valuable above all other creatures, and thus who, regardless of their level of ability or inability to produce, are not to be denied, for someone else’s selfish worldly glory, the joy of living in God’s creation as human beings and as rightly differentiated human individuals.

'''The third definition of work''' is that which distinguishes between every important factor of the nature of production, beginning with the kind of production intended for the original, unfallen world. This third view of work holds that human individuals, as such, are inherently valuable above all other creatures, and thus who, regardless of their level of ability or inability to produce, are not to be denied, for someone else’s selfish worldly glory, the joy of living in God’s creation as human beings and as rightly differentiated human individuals.