Why Technology Didn't Produce Increased Leisure

[David Horn]

(06-19-2018, 11:24 AM)tg63 Wrote:

(06-18-2018, 03:28 PM)David Horn Wrote: Increased productivity is no longer a net plus, unless you are in the ownership class.  All the benefits flow there, while all the efforts to achieve are produced by the work-for-a-living crowd.  At some point that may finally sink into the skulls of hoi polloi, and the paradigm might shift.  So far, the workers are identifying with the moneyed interests, because they have so much in common.  

wouldn't we have to be well into the 1T before that shift really starts?

It should be the motivator that energizes the 4T. 1Ts tend to be utilitarian, with communal efforts and communal rewards. By the time the 1T begins, it's too late to notice you aren't part of the commonweal. That has to be the result of the communal efforts that "win" the 4T, and so far, not too much of that is happening.