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> Nevermind that society dictates everyone must work to survive by default. What is the alternative ?
by leosanchez 8mo ago
> Nevermind that society dictates everyone must work to survive by default.
What is the alternative ?
- burnt-resistor 8mo agoYou appear to be asking a trick question, disingenuously. There's a vast continuum between grossly-unequal homeless everywhere like many corrupt, third-world countries with masked, paramilitary disappearance squads and a large, happy middle-class paid well that can afford to buy things, take vacations, and enjoy life where corruption is lesser.
- sejje 8mo agoThe disappearing middle class in America is becoming the upper class.
- Brybry 8mo agoA little over 100 years ago women were only 20% of the labor force. [1] Which is to say, most women did not participate in wage employment. Now they're ~47%. Which is great! But it also hints that society doesn't need most of the labor for the system to still function. [1] https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/about/history https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/about/history
- dukeyukey 8mo ago"Work" does not exclusively mean "work full time for a wage".
- blueflow 8mo agoyeah but carrying and raising kids?
- pjc50 8mo agoRather like subsistence farming, everyone got out of housework as soon as possible and into a far less onerous office.
- foldr 8mo agoHousework isn’t as onerous now as it was 100 years ago, though.
- johsole 8mo agoif I could retire, raise my kids and homeschool them, and do housework instead I would in a second. Nothing is more interesting, more fulfilling, and more challenging then raising the next generation.
- xboxnolifes 8mo agoPeople didn't get out of housework. They're doing housework and office work.