Yep, oiled machines in a towel factory and in those days earned enough to get married, buy a little house and raise a son WITHOUT ANY FORM OF GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE. He told my mother his house was paid for and he had thirteen thousand dollars in the bank back when that would have bought a fifty acre farm in the Carolinas. Reconcile that with the BS you hear about the wonders of our modern economy. I wonder what he might have accomplished had he not spent most of his life in a state of depression. My mother said that he worked like a mad man as a teenager, at the age when I only wanted to get a break from all the farm work he would find a tiny spot to plant his own little crop of cantaloupes or something when all the regular farm work was already done.
so. Do pessimists work harder?
I guess if they are pessimistic about everyone else but their own abilities they might