The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
“What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.”
“Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.”