SageWanderer · 70-79, M
@ninalanyon The work-life experience has been ingrained in us rather than life-work.
ninalanyon · 70-79, TVIP
@SageWanderer A few seconds after hearting your reply I took a look at Hacker News and found this:
Here's a short extract from the article:
https://theamericanscholar.org/the-importance-of-being-idle/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666639
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666639
Here's a short extract from the article:
And yet, Lafargue exclaims, “the blind passion and perverse murderousness of work have transformed the machine from an instrument of emancipation into an instrument that enslaves free beings.” The reason workers spend so many hours shackled to their machines, he contended, was not from economic necessity. Instead, it was imposed upon them by their superiors, the captains of industry and finance, who were wedded to “the dogma of work and diabolically drilled the vice of work into the heads of workers.”
Of course, Lafargue never called for the eradication of work. The necessities of life, after all, would always require the labor of women and men to produce and provide. But he did press for the rationalization of work. Given the efficiency of machines, fewer hours were needed to provide the necessities of life. Maintaining the same excessive number of work hours inevitably flooded the market with superfluities and the era’s repeated economic crises stretching from 1873 to the end of the century.
Of course, Lafargue never called for the eradication of work. The necessities of life, after all, would always require the labor of women and men to produce and provide. But he did press for the rationalization of work. Given the efficiency of machines, fewer hours were needed to provide the necessities of life. Maintaining the same excessive number of work hours inevitably flooded the market with superfluities and the era’s repeated economic crises stretching from 1873 to the end of the century.
anoderod55 · 70-79, M
SageWanderer · 70-79, M
I can still remember during my naive days writing a paper combining the futuristic elements of Star Trek with the advancements of automation. My dream was to insure full employment workers would have fewer hours and more time for other pursuits and relaxation. The thing I did not take into consideration was greed.