6It's interesting that both Capitalism and Communism lead to extreme amounts of work.
What is "work" anyway?
It's likely that AI and robotics could give us a reprieve from manual labor, but I doubt that we will take advantage of the leisure time.
by autocol 324 days ago · link
I've wondered this a lot myself.
I run an online business that doesn't require me to do much work. My goal is to get to the point where I do very little work at all, and spend most of my time travelling. Why do people set up their entire life for toil? In an age where you can earn in an hour enough to eat for the day, and in another hour enough to house yourself, why are people at work 12 hours a day?
I seriously don't understand the mentality.
by easynow 324 days ago · link
George Carlin summed up the reason the middle class works so hard, The upper class: keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class: pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there...just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep them showing up at those jobs
by thenewgreen 326 days ago · link
So, if I choose to spend my day working in my yard, "redistributing dirt" that wouldn't be work as it's my want to do so?
So would the spending of ones time for "compensation laboring for someone else" be the definition of "work"?