Mike Rowe: Safe Space Movement Has Reduced the Work Ethic in Americans

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ROWE: "We’ve given away $5 million over the last five years, and, yes, every year, it gets increasingly difficult to affirmatively reward work ethic. There’s some things my scholarship requires you to do that other scholarships don’t. You have to write essays and make videos sign a sweat pledge. When people are often confronted through these hoops in which I ask them to leap, they take umbridge at that. I find it fascinating. It doesn’t bother me so much because I understand that a valuable thing is almost always a thing that is in demand and work ethic is very much in demand, but to answer your question, why is it harder to find it? I think that probably does have something to do with the expectations that have evolved out of the safe space movement which you’ve done a lot to talk about on your program, and I’m starting to think that maybe there is a link between the expectations a patron might have at a Starbucks vis-a-vis the expectations a squatter who just happens to be genetically tied to you might have vis-a-vis the basement in which he currently dwells, etc., etc. You know, I mean, of all the divides in the country, I think you could probably make a pretty interesting case that there’s a fissure running through the expectation of what happens when we elevate safety and feelings to a level of primacy. I think it creates a real disconnect that people are struggling to parse."