"No one would support a policy that required them to buy this time back from the state in the form of a tax." America's puritan relationship with work, and it'

"No one would support a policy that required them to buy this time back from the state in the form of a tax." America's puritan relationship with work, and it's toxic interaction with free-market economics has reached it's ultimate conclusion in an economics that calmly and rationally lays out an argument that the working class, who: 1) for perhaps the first time in history have their essential needs met without spending most of their lives at toil, and 2) who indeed are happier than similar cohorts have been in the past, should 3) have their leisure time taxed in order to encourage them to go back to work for capital earning wages they don't want, instead of spending their time as they please. This article really lays bare the grim reality of our world order: the owners want us working, even if there's nothing for us to gain from it. Indeed, any potential surplus which might under a rational system result in leisure, will instead be sucked up by an owner-controlled state through confiscatory taxes which are designed solely to get us back into the mines lest we enjoy ourselves too much playing Overwatch, being with our families, or just generally not wasting our lives in low-paying retail and service jobs.