The economy is supposed to serve us, not the other way, there is no pride in being a slave, it's not the flex you think it is lol.
Let's work 90 hours a week and retire at 80, imagine the growth, big numbers get bigger makes bald monkey happy
Let's work 90 hours a week and retire at 80, imagine the growth, big numbers get bigger makes bald monkey happy
that is all you heard in the 80-90s, people over the pond showing off how many hours per week they worked. like... how is that something to be proud of? So wauw, you spend 12hrs+ per day working , had no free evenings, zero paid holidays. And that is supposed to impress who?
please.
Hell, it has been going much longer than only 40 years ago, on "In Praise of Idleness" Bertrand Russell talked about how industrialisation with its automation should be helping workers to work less 90 years ago.