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- A Wall Street Journal poll shows Americans value "hard work" less than they used to.
- Hard work hasn't disappeared; it just pays less.
- Today's workers, especially gig workers, don't have the security that hard work once promised.
A poll by the Wall Street Journal that found Americans place less importance on patriotism, religion, and hard work than they once did set off Republican activists and politicians last week
In response to the poll, Vivek Ramaswamy, an "anti-woke" investor and presidential candidate, tweeted, "Faith, patriotism, family, and hard work have disappeared." Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Arkansas' governor and the former Trump White House press secretary, tweeted that's "the source of so many of our nation's problems."