A boomer (傻翁) came to the Master and asked, “Why are all my sons, and the village children, so lazy? When I was there age, I already owned a home and had taken a wife into it!”
The Master replied: “When you were a young man, the silver mines were still full. When you were a young man, the magistrates were men of nobility and the court eunuchs held no power. When you were a young man, you sold the future of the workers (農) to the merchant class (商). For what end would your sons labor hard? I tell you- you sold out the veneration, oblations, and prayers of your progeny for the afterlife for the comfort of a few decades on the Earth.”

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