Things like that (and your characterization of honest labour as humiliating) are why I can't vote FF despite agreeing with you on a number of other issues.
You're so omoshiroi, opebo-chan.
Well I thank you very much and applaud your use of the Nipponese Tongue (though in Romanized version so a bit of a cheat). You know that reminds me of a story about a Nipponese Tongue.. but I digress..
How can one characterize labour in any other fashion in our capitalist system, Nathan? Don't get me wrong, if a man in wealth or on the dole, creates, say, a charming garden through his the efforts of his own green thumbs, then we may say 'that labor was honest, valuable, and worthy of respect'. But if one participates in the
market economy, one is an abject slave (or conversely a kind of vampire), and there is nothing to commend there.