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"decadent" is a pejorative word for "growing respect for the rights and dignity of workers." What does it say about us that we look back 150 years and say that
by gcanyon 4y ago
"decadent" is a pejorative word for "growing respect for the rights and dignity of workers."
What does it say about us that we look back 150 years and say that it's unacceptable that children were engaged in dangerous work and that people worked pretty much as long as there was daylight six days a week, but we look back 30 years and say that people back then had a strong work ethic because they worked unpaid overtime?
- ericd 4y agoAre you sure that’s what people mean when they say “decadent”? I would, for example, include things like hedonism, living beyond one’s means, decreases in frugality, increases in conspicuous consumption, decrease in self-reliance skills. That’s not to blame the people involved, they’re responses to the environment that people find themselves in, and the culture that has developed.