I know what work is John. A helluva lot more than some snot nosed kid fresh out of college and jumped up on his own inflated sense of self-worth heading into some union job. What a patronizing, though typically liberal, thing to say.

Work should be hard. That is why it is rewarding. That is how you get value out of life. For me, give me the entreprenuer. The guy who gets up at 5am everyday. Goes to sleep at night wondering if his phone will ring tomorrow, if he can afford to pay his employees, if his taxes will go up, if he will be able to pay back his friends or the bank who loaned him his capital. How will he pay his bills without the stability and assurance of a union job. He has my admiration. Sorry, little sympathy here for the teacher playing bush tourist amongst 'the indigineous' so he can quaff lattes when he goes back to Town; telling salty-eyed tales of deprivation of life in Emmonak etc etc.