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All of my professional career has been dedicated to building tools and finding ways to make the time of others more productive.

Whether its building a software to process steam turbine alignment measurements for outage workers, installing training simulators to help operators of coal plants avoid unplanned outages, or gather data for reports on lubricant performance in nuke plants under loss-of-coolant accidents - I’m always building something that will be USED in actual work; but never quite doing it myself.

So, is it fair that I take today off, because I’m not a “laborer” in the classic sense? According to Fredric Hamber of Capitalism Magazine - I deserve to more than I think. Here’s a taste:

It is fitting that the most productive nation on earth should have a holiday to honor its work. The high standard of living that Americans enjoy is hard-earned and well-deserved. But the term “Labor Day” is a misnomer. What we should celebrate is not sweat and toil, but the power of man’s mind to reason, invent and create.

Several centuries ago, providing the basic necessities for one’s survival was a matter of daily drudgery for most people. But Americans today enjoy conveniences undreamed of by medieval kings. Every day brings some new useful household gadget, or a new software system to increase our productivity, or a breakthrough in biotechnology.

So, it is worth asking: Why do Americans have no unique holiday to celebrate the creators, inventors, and entrepreneurs who have made all of this wealth possible–the men of the mind?

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Have a safe and happy holiday - see y’all tomorrow.