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Originally Posted by Bandwagon In Flames
If there is anything that society has taught us, it's that 99% of people do the minimum amount of work to survive comfortably. The amount of work will decrease and decrease until there is nothing that we need to do in order to survive comfortably.
And it's going to happen way faster than you think.
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I don't agree with that. Longer life expectancy has created a situation whereby many people in retirement find themselves in a position with no work to challenge them, for a fairly lengthy period of time.
Many find this intolerable and re-seek employment.
People
need to be challenged and kept busy.
There was lots of talk decades ago about the pace that the number of hours in a work week was declining. Everyone figured that eventually we will only work like 10 hours a week or whatever. However, it turned out that the work week really hasn't declined at all over the last few decades - probably for the same reason.
What I see changing isn't that people will stop working to the point of their own demise, what I see is that the
type of labour will continue to evolve into more refined, intellectual, safe, and/or enjoyable type positions (a trend that has already been in place for a century at least). As people become more well off (i.e. take care of basic needs), they don't seek
less work, they seek
more rewarding work.