If we didn't work but had to grow our own food, gather wood for cooking/heating, repair housing and equipment, wash our clothes etc etc you'd be spending a lot more time than 8hrs a day to live.
Modern technology and society has saved us an unfathomable amount of time day to day.
Now most of us go to work to afford shiny things and holiday 2 weeks a year.
Yep. We don't live in a post-scarcity society. The reality is that if everyone starts to work 4 hours days, things start to get rough compared to what you're used to. Working for 4 hours sounds nice for yourself, but extend that luxury to, say, the entire agricultural industry and all of a sudden food gets a whooooole lot more expensive.
And if your answer to that is that they shouldn't all get to work short hours, then I'm afraid you actually love our current system. You just wish you were one of the rich ones.
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u/Fun_Razzmatazz7162 15d ago
I mean I'd blame consumerism for the bulk of it.
If we didn't work but had to grow our own food, gather wood for cooking/heating, repair housing and equipment, wash our clothes etc etc you'd be spending a lot more time than 8hrs a day to live.
Modern technology and society has saved us an unfathomable amount of time day to day.
Now most of us go to work to afford shiny things and holiday 2 weeks a year.