As a arm-chair historian, I feel there has always been an ebb and flow of balanced-working versus over-working. For example, reading stories of Carnegie's steel

As a arm-chair historian, I feel there has always been an ebb and flow of balanced-working versus over-working. For example, reading stories of Carnegie's steel plants with 12-hours work days, 7 days a week in 1894: >> The demanding conditions sapped the life from workers. "You don't notice any old men here," said a Homestead laborer in 1894. "The long hours, the strain, and the sudden changes of temperature use a man up." Sociologist John A. Fitch called it "old age at forty." https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/carnegie-steel-business/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/carnegi... Modern times show us the '996 icu' work culture rising: https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU My greatest fear is that there will not be enough jobs for everyone, and Andrew Yang's proposal for UBI will become even more important, but the 'cult of over-working' will keep it from ever being implemented: https://2020.yang2020.com/policies/the-freedom-dividend/ https://2020.yang2020.com/policies/the-freedom-dividend/