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This is exactly by design. It encourages consumerism and the idea of consuming your limited free time with entertainment and superficial activities. But it goe
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
This is exactly by design. It encourages consumerism and the idea of consuming your limited free time with entertainment and superficial activities.
But it goes far beyond that. With limited free time people cannot develop political consciousness and drive social change.
There are historical examples: most dictatorships go/went very far to keep people busy and preserve the status quo.
Universities, on the other hand, has been often driving social change given that students usually have more free time and freedom to organize their time.
- bpyne 7y ago"Bread and circuses" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
- spoovy 7y agoIt's a natural desire to work hard to improve your life, no government needed to design that. If anything modern liberal democracies have reduced the tendency to work constantly (compared to most of our history) by creating regular days off (weekends, bank holidays etc) and annual holidays. For me, the always-on thing is more a consequence of the internet/smartphone revolution, and I doubt DARPA, Berners-Lee, Apple etc al were all working in cahoots to prevent social change.