industriousness

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Some progressives, who are more interested in minimizing inequality than maximizing opportunity, insist that not even industriousness makes an individual deserving because it is an inherited trait.

From Washington Post

It produces affluence that subverts the virtues that capitalism requires — thrift, industriousness, deferral of gratification.

From Washington Post

But such fluidity also requires a level of skill — and industriousness.

From Washington Post

Each morning, after the nightly internet shutdowns, more websites and V.P.N.s are blocked, showing the soldiers’ industriousness.

From New York Times

The automated decadence of Chrysopolis — the Golden City, Zurich-like in its alpine industriousness — stands in for a planet that may be better off without its failed stewards.

From New York Times