• PeeOnYou [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    I think that’s why I’ve always been so resistant to having a steady job for long periods of time. I grew up with my dad always telling me that robots were going to do everything and life was basically going to just be chillin and enjoying things by the time I was his age. A lot of the technological things he talked about surely did come as he predicted, but the economics never changed, and have only gotten worse. I don’t know what he would say if he were alive to have witnessed it all but he probably wouldn’t have been so USA #1 anymore I’d like to think.

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    4 months ago

    Even Keynes predicted sub-twenty hour work weeks back in his day by projecting worker productivity gains into the future. The productivity gains have been achieved, the reduction in working hours have not.