Comment on Anon is exploited
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoBack in the 50s they thought people in the year 2000 would only work 20 hours a week and the biggest problem would be too much free time.
If we don’t make permanent retirement for all of humanity a goal we won’t get there. But the unifying factor for every political party is MOAR JOBZ. Hell, even the ancoms think people should work.
And we basically did that with agriculture already. In industrialized nations less than 10% when just a couple hundred years ago it was over 90%.
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Back in the 50s they had strong unions and great New Deal laws that helped workers out. But, they didn’t put two and two together. They didn’t understand why things were great. They didn’t realize that by the 70s politicians would already be rolling back all those protections, and that people wouldn’t object. In addition, the people in the 50s just assumed that black people would continue to be an underclass who could be exploited. So, a white person could do less while a black person picked up the slack.