Website owner: James Miller
A thing that plays a very fundamental role in regard to personal happiness and mental health is a person's job or source of income. The sense of security that comes from a job or some dependable source of income is crucial to happiness. No job or source of income means dependence, living off the generosity of others, insecurity and unhappiness. Man must have shelter and something to eat or he will die. These are absolute essentials for each of us. That means he must have a job or some means or other of obtaining these essentials --- and not just for himself but also for his family. In the end people will do whatever they have to do to live. In some cases this may mean stealing, begging or prostitution. In order to live, people may be forced to do things they don't want to do; things that are morally repugnant to them; things that will lower their self-esteem. Need can force a person into spiritual and moral degradation. Oct 1993
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