Why Technology Didn't Produce Increased Leisure

[David Horn]

(06-18-2018, 12:10 PM)tg63 Wrote:

(06-16-2018, 09:34 AM)beechnut79 Wrote: Do any of you see any hope for another period of time charged with radical fun if you want it? Seems that mindset disappeared circa the mid-1980s when society went from hedonistic to workaholic almost overnight. Aren't there at least some left who want to love, play, dance and create?

I do miss those sentiments, but they certainly aren't values that are considered noble or even desirable in this phase of the cycle. After all, they aren't qualities that  contribute to increasing productivity.  

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.