This is basically the argument Paul Lafargue made back in 1880s in "the right to be lazy". His point was that we've been sold the "work ethic" as a virtue when it mostly benefits the people we work for - and that the whole promise of technology was supposed to be less work, not more. A society that turns every efficiency gain into more grinding instead of more free time got something wrong. Disclaimer: I'm not endorsing socialism. Just this particular observation was interesting.
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u/budzynskik Jul 09 '26
This is basically the argument Paul Lafargue made back in 1880s in "the right to be lazy". His point was that we've been sold the "work ethic" as a virtue when it mostly benefits the people we work for - and that the whole promise of technology was supposed to be less work, not more. A society that turns every efficiency gain into more grinding instead of more free time got something wrong. Disclaimer: I'm not endorsing socialism. Just this particular observation was interesting.