I’m
not a parent, but something we always hear in regards to parenting is that
parents want their kids to do better than they did. So if Generation 1 is able to pay for a
house, car, whatever else by working 40 hours a week, wouldn’t they want
Generation 2 to be able to do all of that by working only 35 hours a week? They would have five additional hours a week
to spend with their families. Wouldn’t
that count as being better?
But
then, wouldn’t Generation 2 want Generation 3 to do all of that by working only
30 hours a week? Eventually, shouldn’t
there be a Generation that can have a house, and car, and whatever without
having to work? Before you start
screaming “socialist fantasy,” or whatever, I’m using “work” to mean doing
something you really don’t want to do for money, from flipping burgers to
sitting in a cubical all day entering billing information. If your heart is really set on building
handcrafted furniture or writing sonnets, I’m not calling that work. But those things don’t always pay that well.
How many
people now hate their work? Why should
that still be a thing in a better world?
If the “Better World” we see for future generations looks a lot like the
world we have now, it just means we lack imagination.
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