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I honestly have no idea why the fantasy persists that people given free time will broadly start contributing to society when there's so much evidence to the con

• vouaobrasil 2y ago
  It is a fantasy that technophiles tell themselves so they can sleep a little better at night even though they are at the forefront of an unsustainable society.
• danaris 2y ago
  Because actual scientific studies that have been conducted on such efforts have shown, over and over and over and over again, that it's true. Some people, when given the resources to thrive without having to work, take a bunch of time off in order to heal from long-term burnout. But even most of them will eventually return to doing something productive of some sort.
  • ThrowawayR2 2y ago
    "...actual scientific studies..." eh? Let's set aside that one can find studies that say anything one wants, let's set aside that replication is much less likely in the social sciences, please list the top three studies that you personally read that persuaded you that your position is true. If you do provide them, I will take the time to read them; my extensive time spent in the lower social economic strata of society gives me a lot of data points that say otherwise but I'll give the papers a fair shake. If you pull the "do your own research" rhetorical gambit or just dig up the top hits by Googling, that means you were bluffing about "scientific studies" all along.