The show even goes out of its way to mock Leslie’s husband, Ben, for getting into stop-motion animation when he’s briefly unemployed. Ben’s stop-motion films are amateurish; they’re never going to win him any awards or help him secure a new job. So, in the eyes of the show and its characters, his interest in it is kind of pathetic. The mild depression he develops as a consequence of being unemployed is ridiculed too. The show consistently implies that a life of hard work and achievement is superior in every way to a life that goes at a slower pace. Unfortunately, a lot of us still believe
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