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Your first sentence is a false factoid repeated online [0][1]. And anyway, there is always more work to be done, so I don't understand why people think working
by satvikpendem 2y ago
Your first sentence is a false factoid repeated online [0][1]. And anyway, there is always more work to be done, so I don't understand why people think working hours would ever decrease; as soon as we build one thing, another problem crops up. We would only stop working until all problems in the world would have been solved, which is never.
[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/z38k5p/i_have_read_a_lot_lately_about_how/ https://old.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/z38k5p/i_h...
[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/im1lqu/is_it_true_that_hunter_gatherers_had_more_leisure/ https://old.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/im1lqu/is_...
- sydbarrett74 2y agoMaybe we could get off the hedonic treadmill and be content with a certain level of material affluence.
- satvikpendem 2y agoI don't know about you, but I don't want to die of now-curable diseases that were only able to be cured due to the hard work of many, many humans over generations. To think that that human progress is akin to a personal hedonic treadmill is misguided.
- sydbarrett74 2y agoOne doesn't have to come at the expense of another. Cf. 'Steady State Economy'.
- satvikpendem 2y agoIn theory, sure, but not so in practice.