I saw the relief flood through him. He was so innocent, so confused. The Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries brought a new crisis. In colonial times a person who was productive felt worthwhile. There was pride in work, not only because a person felt one was demonstrating one’s goodness but because people needed and appreciated one’s products. Handmade good, like furniture, wagons, Winchester rifles, homes, and clothing were usually well made. Even today, antiques have survived this long because of the superior skill that went into their craft. Suddenly, with the advent of machinery that eased the challenge of work, decreasing production costs and manufacturing more units more quickly and efficiently, the engineers and manufacturers faced a new realization. One was no longer the producer who used tools. One was now the one used by the tools, the machines. In previous times the engineers and producers determined how the tool would be used. Suddenly the tool was determining the course of construction and coordination of the work. Management consultants realized that socioemotional skills were going to be an important factor in the marketplace because tasks requiring operational excellence and efficiency were like to be performed much more effectively by artificial intelligence and robots. #RandolphHarris 1 of 12

Additionally, the mark of success shifted from the satisfaction felt by producer or consumer to the emphasis on profits. It was the merger of technology and capital that produced capitalism and made the capitalists the new leader of society. Still, socioemotional skills were seen as being increasingly critical for future career success. Business schools had to adjust their curricula to include them, and private educational institutions made it their mission to teach them. Because in addition to their biological needs, human beings also have social and human needs. The need to belong is an important one, but also is the need to feel worthwhile. The new set of emotions people were taught, such as admiration, adoration, awe, and aesthetic appreciate were through to reduce liability and conflict at work and make the products, employees, and good and services more appealing to consumers and investors, who control the money and ultimately determine your success. Envy, anger, horror, and unexpected emotional outburst were expected to be things people left at home or talked to a therapist or religious leader about. Human beings the crafts people or independent business people found themselves becoming humans the mass-producers, the tool-helper, the manager of an enterprise. #RandolphHarris 2 of 12

The sense of personal involvement and work of human beings was starting to be undermined by the machines. By now the theological promise of eventual salvation was a dim hope, as there were too few successes to encourage the working individual. Also, in the Industrial Era the working person had little idea of the real value of their work, since they were paid by the hour or day instead of per unit. Therefore, the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative was robbing people of a sense of dignity and of community because when one loses work, the meaning and purpose of life are taken away from an individual, and isolation can set in. Research also indicates the people are at a greater risk of sickness, substance abuse and other challenges. Families can start breaking apart under the pressure, mental illness rises, and educational achievement collapses. When a system needs to keep itself going, and the people led by the system begin to question it, a new program takes place among the system’s leadership for the development of new legends or ideologies to give to the people. The older legend of divine election needed to be replaced subtly in the minds of the dissatisfied populace. #RandolphHarris 3 of 12

A popular legend that has always worked to rally support from common people is the one which maintains that what is happening is helping to bring them Freedom. Freedom is a banner that has appealed to people for centuries, whatever the cause or movement. In addition to this legend that industry was freeing workers from the bondage of long hours or drudgery, the myth of Social Darwinism was published. We have made mention of this before, but we will briefly sketch it again. Charles Darwin, in The Origin of Species, theorized that species survived because they were fittest, and therefore, superior. Herbert Spencer and others applied the theory also to those who lived in the economic jungle: the organizations and individuals who survived the economic competition were the most fit. Captains of industry and entrepreneurs were obviously superior because they were demonstrating the most fitness. By extension, the worker was inferior because he or she was not an industrial giant. Since working people have had so little to say about the conditions or the outcome of their labors, they have too often been treated) like they do not matter. So long as industrialists and managers have viewed workers as insignificant, little more than an unnecessary cog in a machine they have tended to treat them as such. #RandolphHarris 4 of 12

The worker was considered to have only the basic needs that people who are not self actualized have: food, shelter, fresh air, occasional rest. When it came to considering their workers, employers and entrepreneurs were willing to meet only these needs. The country was devastated by deindustrialization. This wave of glocalization and the products of technological innovation destroyed industrial jobs or exported them to developing nations with comparatively low-wage economics. However, even other countries are now experiencing the affect of losing jobs. The Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn builds about 33 percent of the World’s consumer electronics and it has already replaced 60,000 of its employees with robots. The robots are now cheaper than human beings earning only $5.00 a day. There have been attempts in American to reform from time to time, when it became necessary to say or do something about the inequities being worked in business and industry. Industry was chided for forgetting the human needs of their workers. Managers were cautioned and counseled to remember that their employees were people with soul, with families, with rights, with something like dignity lying latent in their beings. “And the people began to repent of their iniquity; and inasmuch as they did the Lord did have mercy on them,” reports Ether 11.8. #RandolphHarris 5 of 12

Many reforms were brought about through the efforts of labor unions and sociologists in the early years of the twentieth century. However, many of them, as beneficial as they were, only began to do the reform work that was needed. Better wages and working conditions were significant steps forward, but just steps. In the economic system that has been based on a view of human nature that calls the working human biological machines, there has been little consideration paid to other aspects of the laborers’ humanity. When the worker finds one’s age affecting one’s stamina, endurance, speed, and productivity, the economic system calls for one’s retirement. Like the workhorse, even the racehorse, he or she is pastured out. Since the average worker has believed for so long that one is valuable only as long as one’s biological machine-body holds up to make one productive, one also believes that at retirement their value has depreciated so much that it is gone. Although we are concerned with these problems, better trained economic minds than ours have wrestled with them for years, and we believe that other aspects of the problem can be better dealt with here. #RandolphHarris 6 of 12

The attitudes of employers toward workers can be improved through re-education in business training. Workers can be brought together with employers to better the picture they currently hold of the boss. Sensitivity training of many kinds is being utilized with varying degrees of success in trying to improve labor-management attitudes, relations, and policy. As workers gain better education, they too will gain a better picture of themselves as human beings and will not settle for being treated as biological machines without emotions of feelings. Increased humane treatment can produce happier and more productive workers must gain a picture of oneself as a person who has value in more than just one aspect of one’s being. Having had no choice in the matter of being born, one needs a belief in one’s intrinsic worth. Intrinsic means basic to nature. Most of us have been raised to believe we have only instrumental worth, value when we do or produce something. Humanistic psychology says that human beings are valuable simply because they are human beings. “But I pray to you, O LORD, in the time of your favor; in your great love, O God, answer me with your sure salvation. Rescue me from the mire, do not let me sink; deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep waters,” reports Psalm 69.13-14. #RandolphHarris 7 of 12

Here in mortality we are called upon to make serious decisions, the outcome of which can have a lasting effect upon our spiritual and mortal future. If we can cultivate that sense of worth, reinforcing it both by our treatment of others and by our attitudes towards ourselves, we will find happier, more productive contributing human beings. We should always be worthy to seek for the Spirit to help us always choose the right. “Then are ye in this strait and narrow path which leads to eternal life; yea, ye have entered in by the gate; ye have done according to the commandments of the Father and the Son; and ye have received the Holy Ghost,” reports 2 Nephi 31.18. We have a responsibility to remain firmly focused on our eternal destination. Yes, life’s journeys can have many fluctuations. Yes, there will be ties when we feel the going is tough. However, as we stay on the right path, the reward at the end of life’s journey is well worth the moments of adversity we experience along the way. The value of such treatment and attitude has not been tested only in industry or business. Promoting a sense of individual worth is basic to effective psychotherapy and counseling, to effective public education, to marriages and other love relationships, and certainly to child-rearing. May we keep our minds and bodies clean from the sins of the World so that we can do the great work that lies before us. #RandolphHarris 8 of 12

People who are accepted and loved and treated as worthwhile have a greater tendency to develop more fully in their selfhood, to engage themselves more fully in their tasks and chores, and, if production is any kind of measure, to turn out more of whatever we might like from them. We pray that we will be worthy to carry on the responsibilities of building the kingdom of God and preparing the World for the Second Coming of the Savior. We must please know the important of being wise by following the counsel of our prophets, and happiness will be ours throughout our life’s journey. Like maturity, work is an expression of selfhood, not a means of gaining it. Research concluded the factors reported for job satisfaction and dissatisfaction on the job does not correlate either positively or negatively with those reported for job dissatisfaction, suggesting that job satisfaction and dissatisfaction are two separate factors. This means that the opposite of job satisfaction is not job dissatisfaction; it is no job satisfaction. The opposite of job dissatisfaction is not job satisfaction, but no job dissatisfaction. It is like finding as we often do that happy is not the opposite of sad: it may simply be not sad, and happiness may have nothing to do with it. #RandolphHarris 9 of 12

The factors that produced more or less job dissatisfaction had to do with environmental and maintenance conditions: company policy and administration, supervision, interpersonal relations, salary, and working conditions. Improvements in these areas did not necessarily produce job satisfaction, simply decreased dissatisfaction. In terms of job satisfaction, the researchers found that factors like achievement, recognition, the work itself, responsibility, and advancement had to do with motivation and encouragement, stimulating the worker to better performance and effectiveness. Decreasing these factors did not produce job dissatisfaction, either; it merely lessened the satisfaction. The situations listed as producing job dissatisfaction are called hygiene factors, since the medical meaning of hygiene deals with preventative and environmental factors. Another term is maintenance factors. On the other hand, the things the subjects associated with satisfaction were termed motivator factors. It appears that human beings are strongly motivated to avoid unpleasant environmental factors, but rarely call such avoidance happiness or satisfaction. In addition to simply reducing stress, tension, pain, discomfort, other things being assisted by salary and working conditions, we seem to need motivators. #RandolphHarris 10 of 12

Seeking growth and challenge and self-realization seems to be required to produce real satisfaction or happiness. The Work-Sin Ethic usually deals only with a small aspect of this problem. It tells us that if we want to avoid the pain sin, the discomfort and guilt of being unfruitful, then we must work and work hard. Seldom does it talk about the built-in rewards of feeling good about being involved in the World’s work, only about pulling your own oar on the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) . Humans tend through natural instinct to foster and preserve society. Consequently, we observe that there exist in all people’s minds universal impressions of a certain civic fair dealing and order…and this is ample proof that in arrangement of this life no person is without the light of reason. The magistrate has its authority from God. In a sense one’s authority is God’s authority; for magistrates are ministers of Divine justice, vicegerents of God. Thus the duty of magistrate is to apply the law of God, implanted on the hearts of all and clarified in the Scriptures, to the affairs of civil society. To what extent and under what circumstances civil disobedience as justice is a matter of debate. What is clear is that the law of nature in some sense is a standard by which the decisions of the magistrate are to be judged, and at the same time we should regard revolutions which rip apart the entire fabric of human society as not to be condoned. #RandolphHarris 11 of 12

An essential aspect of our knowledge of God is out acknowledgement of his attitude toward us, especially his attitude of benevolence and love. God’s benevolence presupposes worshiping and obeying him. An essential piece of work for people is to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy anger, learning to consistently choose the former. Sometimes we also need our anger in order to move forward, to level what no longer serves us, to potentially address injustice, to protect the sanctity of our being—and this will become harmful if our anger gets funneled into aggression or is treated as something negative or unwholesome or in the way of true peace. Though aggression might seem to be an inevitable outcome of anger, it is actually an avoidance of anger and the hurt and vulnerability that are part of it. In the face of injustice, be it personal or collective anger rouses us to take action—its heart is activist. Yet, competence is having character in being able to possess self-control of our emotions. Confidence builds with competence. As we learn to trust our own abilities and put trust in the Lord, we will be able to learn the things that will improve our lives. Success in every aspect of our lives begins with trust. #RandolphHarris 12 of 12