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Every Civilization Hits a Point Where the Masses Won’t Work Anymore
We’re getting very close…
Many working people spend enormous amounts of emotional, psychological, and mental energy figuring out how they can stop working and still eat at least one meal a day.
We assured our children that their emotional well-being and happiness should matter more than their careers or jobs. Yet many are struggling to find their role in the workplace.
Working yourself to death, was something we Generation X and Boomers felt was the proper priority — work-hard-play-hard.
Yet, as we transition from a workforce that used to have strong unions and could only fire people for strong causes, to a gig-oriented economy where your boss can fire you, or you can quit on the spot, for any reason or no reason at all. As you can imagine this “right to work” almost exclusively favors the employer at the expense of the employee.
Most fair-minded people realize that if you’re working for a company or a corporation you work at their mercy but the power differential has now shifted so irreparably in the direction of management that somebody could work 15, 20, even 30 years somewhere and be fired because a new boss doesn’t like their personality— without a shred of recourse. Even prisoners are guaranteed 3 squares a day and a bed —…
