We didn’t when we got computers. We didn’t when we got calculators. Or typewriters. Or the Industrial Revolution. Or anything else.
Work expands to fill available hours. We don’t get more leisure time. That’s not ‘allowed’.
Work expands to fill available hours. We don’t get more leisure time. That’s not ‘allowed’.
The industrial revolution coincides more or less with when starvation started to disappear from the developed world.
In many countries, holidays and PTO are a norm. I personally know a few people that choose to work 4 days a week, I know another bunch that actually retired early or simply don't jump from a job to another because they can free ride for a bit (no judgment).
That also means that you 1/ have to actually prioritize leisure over money 2/ have actually something leisurely to do.
Aren't retirement ages being raised everwhere across Europe?
Before that labor was exploited. After that labor was exploited.
We don’t seem to be willing to do that again.
The working class will only get any benefits through class fight and collective action, but that ship has sailed.
Capitalism has won.
Atomisation, which liberalism promotes heavily to the underclass, has all but destroyed humanity.