Letters: Readers respond to an article about quitting the rat race, with some saying their generation was handed an untenable position and others saying the struggle is nothing new
Productivity has gone up, pay has remained flat or declined when adjusting for price increases. How is that not “working more for less?”
And your read on the average lemmy user is inane. Most of the people I’ve interacted with want to do meaningful work and be able to live without the constant threat of homelessness, starvation, or death from easily preventable causes.
If you do “enjoyable work” and get paid enough to have a personal life that is also fulfilling, bully for you, but the vast majority of people are fucking struggling.
Productivity has gone up because of technological and logistical innovations. Not because you personally work so much damn harder than your great grandpa ever did.
Did you seriously not understand that? This is like middle school economics.
And yes, I am literally saying most people should be able to do a good amount of enjoyable work for good pay. It is only freaks like yourself who have a knee jerk negative reaction to that because you read the word “work”
This guy thinks productivity has gone up because he personally works harder than the massive amount of people working 16 hours a day since the day they turn 14 a hundred years ago and not because of technological innovations hahahahahahahah
Productivity has gone up, pay has remained flat or declined when adjusting for price increases. How is that not “working more for less?”
And your read on the average lemmy user is inane. Most of the people I’ve interacted with want to do meaningful work and be able to live without the constant threat of homelessness, starvation, or death from easily preventable causes.
If you do “enjoyable work” and get paid enough to have a personal life that is also fulfilling, bully for you, but the vast majority of people are fucking struggling.
Productivity has gone up because of technological and logistical innovations. Not because you personally work so much damn harder than your great grandpa ever did.
Did you seriously not understand that? This is like middle school economics.
And yes, I am literally saying most people should be able to do a good amount of enjoyable work for good pay. It is only freaks like yourself who have a knee jerk negative reaction to that because you read the word “work”
This guy thinks productivity has gone up because he personally works harder than the massive amount of people working 16 hours a day since the day they turn 14 a hundred years ago and not because of technological innovations hahahahahahahah
Or maybe it has gone up because we have vastly more efficient machines and technology at our disposal.
Yeah man. That’s what “technological innovations” are.