Employment systems: bad/good for the "soul"

I find it interesting that the religious notion of moral probation is the idea on which even the structure of the contemporary workplace system is based.



Women are put on moral probation much more decisively than their male counterparts would be. Similarly, employees are considered to be much less trustworthy than those who have gained power and are managers or owners of a business. The idea behind all of this is a fundamentally religious one. Those who are made to be subservient are in that position of servitude for their own good. They can thus learn how to develop proper moral characteristics and thereby perfect their souls. Even if they were to stay in a subservient position their whole lives, their souls would have undergone some improvement by the time they reached heaven.



Women's souls are particularly wild and woolly according to the original story of Genesis -- thus demanding extra policing by everybody. By contrast male souls are more likely to be in a state of innate rectitude to begin with, so the policing doesn't have to be so extreme.