This is the Ramsey Call of the Day, part of the Ramsey Network.

Zach starts off this hour in Evansville, Indiana. Hi, Zach, how are you?

Hey, George and Dave. So, I'm a Catholic. I've recently had a few conversations with other Catholics on the topic of work.

Some of them have an almost socialist perspective on it. They think workers today in the Western

world are facing poor working conditions. They argue for a four-day work week and they say

their employers don't care about them. In some ways, I can understand their concern as Christians

don't want others to be taking advantage of. However, I disagree with their

position. Dave, I was wondering what you would say to these people as someone who is Christian,

encourage his hard work, long work when needed, and as someone who owns a business.

Well, there's two sides to the equation. There's the employer side and the employee side.

I'm an employer.

And as a person of faith, that means I have a responsibility to serve and treat my team well.

Okay? As a dad, I have a responsibility to nurture, serve, and take care of my children when they're minors in my home.

Taking care of them also includes requiring that they brush their teeth, that they say yes, sir, and no, sir.

That they say thank you and learn gratitude, that they learn to work.

Loving them well, my children, when they were little, included teaching them to work, included teaching them things that if you

were to ask them when I was requiring them to clean up their room and they were four, they could

say, well, my dad has unfair working conditions. He's requiring too much of me at four years old.

But the truth is, I could have cleaned up their room easier than it was to talk them into doing it.

But then they would have learned nothing, and they would have gained no dignity.

As an employer, it's different than parenting, but there are some parallels in that my goal or my job as a person of faith is to serve my team.

But serving my team also sometimes includes allowing them to work somewhere else because they suck at their job.

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