There is much more to life than work. We all have families, friends, and a beautiful world to enjoy. We need more time off to enjoy it.
There is much more to life than work. We all have families, friends, and a beautiful world to enjoy. We need more time off to enjoy it.
Given how much efficiencies we have gained, shouldn’t we all be working much, much less? Like maybe one or two days a week, and just a few hours? Where did all the efficiency gains go, other than into the pockets of billionaires?
The thing is, our captains of industry and finance are so fucking hard for infinite growth that we’ll never see a reduction of work hours due to the efficiency, because the efficiency gains are going to be dumped straight into increasing profit.
The only way we’re getting paid the same to work less hours is if we start hunting those people down.
We are in a cult of scarcity, the foundations of the globalized late stage capitalist world rely on there never being enough for everyone.
When there is enough for everyone, that is considered a fail state of capitalism and unless violence successfully forces scarcity back into the system capitalism must move on to a new realm of scarcity or risk extinction.