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Experts didn’t realize parents will never have leisure time.
Grandparents also still go to work, do no help on that front either.
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I have no horse in this race being outside the states. Yet from here, BLM seems to clearly be a US election phenomena rather than a general desire to fix things. It basically disappeared after the last election and the election before that. I'd happily bet on it arising again in 2024. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2015-10-01%202...
> BLM seems to clearly be a US election phenomena rather than a general desire to fix things. Being one of the few levers that citizens have to pull, it is unsurprising that elections create stir over issues that are perpetually important. Nevertheless with respect to the trend chart, correlation ≠ causation. The spring/summer peak in BLM activity was temporally related to the brutal murder of George Floyd at the han…
What actual changes occurred in your country due to the Black Lives Matter movement in a legal sense? Did it result in less police deaths? Covid probably threw a spanner in the works judging such things but for many countries it's likely more their own way to vote on US politics by having people out in the streets than a domestic issue.
It's a US phenomena exported and regurgitated by many others across the west who simply don't have these systemic problems with their police force at all. This concern only really appears once every four years in foreign countries.
Why is no one protesting today, truly? Did the whole BLM movement just decide that brutality stopped? The stats seem the same.
Think it will appear again across the planet in the lead up to the 2024 US election. And your country, along with mine, will be highly concerned about police brutality that doesn't exist in our own nations.
With more even distribution I could totally see more middle class deciding they've got a "good" life and no reason to work another 20 hours extra.
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> If a person has enough to survive, why would they toil and labour? Just do whatever you like! It really boils down on how many people need how much resources and how many people produce these resources. You can argue over who should be your bourgeoisie, should it be the political elite or the entrepreneurs or should it be inherited or or should it be the the people from special blood or religion or should no one be…
Unsure why the post is downvoted, this point of view is really interesting. Could you link some reference materials to explore this more?
It is NOT a fucking mystery, and I'm outraged that so, so many people are or act oblivious to the obscenely obvious cause. (Since it's not actually obvious to everyone, thanks to shit education and propaganda, the uber-wealthy have hoovered up the gains in productivity and kept it to themselves.)
It's very clear by looking at the numbers [0], and it's outrageous to ignore this factor and blame a slightly older population.
[0] - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/11/productivity-workforc...
I think that may have come to pass if it hadn't been to the very top part of society capturing such a gigantic % of the new wealth generated. With more even distribution I could totally see more middle class deciding they've got a "good" life and no reason to work another 20 hours extra.
I think that may have come to pass if it hadn't been to the very top part of society capturing such a gigantic % of the new wealth generated. With more even distribution I could totally see more middle class deciding they've got a "good" life and no reason to work another 20 hours extra.
Probably everyone here can make low six figures without trying. But many want to make 400k a year. So they are trying. I'm done with the rat race myself. Physically, I'm in better shape than almost all of the try hards at work.
I can’t easily make six figures, nor can SWEs in many other places of the world.
With that said, I do enjoy more leisure (4 day workweek). I know that’s a privilege as well.
Greetings from Europe
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Probably everyone here can make low six figures without trying. But many want to make 400k a year. So they are trying. I'm done with the rat race myself. Physically, I'm in better shape than almost all of the try hards at work.
USA != world I can’t easily make six figures, nor can SWEs in many other places of the world. With that said, I do enjoy more leisure (4 day workweek). I know that’s a privilege as well. Greetings from Europe
I am amazed at the disdain for leisure and "free" time and "slacking" in the comments here. If a person has enough to survive, why would they toil and labour? Just do whatever you like! I suspect a big problem is that many people actually don't know what they like to do. Most people with full-time jobs I know don't have much energy left after their workday, and thus the only "leisure" they are still capable of and th…
> If a person has enough to survive, why would they toil and labour? Just do whatever you like! It really boils down on how many people need how much resources and how many people produce these resources. You can argue over who should be your bourgeoisie, should it be the political elite or the entrepreneurs or should it be inherited or or should it be the the people from special blood or religion or should no one be…
Yes, or alternatively, you can live in a society which uses coups, death squads, and puppet dictators to keep Honduran labor cheap.
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Unsure why the post is downvoted, this point of view is really interesting. Could you link some reference materials to explore this more?
I think the topic is quite nebulous but I recall some articles on these issues here on HN that reached the front page. I recall something about historical ratio of the non-working elites being about the same and societies crumbling over that threshold.