“Let’s not indiscriminately consider the rich to be blessed, and neither let us disparage the poor, nor scorn tradesmen, nor consider labor to be a reproach. Rather, let us be ashamed of idleness, and have nothing to do with it.   If labor were a reproach, Paul would not have worked at a trade; neither would he have considered it to be beneficial for himself.”
(St John Chrysostom,  on  ‘Priscilla and Aquila’)