Looking at the generations from the Fourth Turning perspective

[David Horn]

(06-11-2018, 10:56 AM)beechnut79 Wrote: Where it comes to the results of this 4T the jury is obviously still out. In the book even the authors couldn't accurate predict what the crisis would entail and we still don't know entirely. But on another thread I pointed out one of the things many futurists predicted that really went awry, and that was the one that modern technology would produce a world of ever increasing leisure. Still waiting for that one. Anyone really think we will ever see it?

<DEPRESSING_COMMENT>Unless the Protestant Work Ethic™ is repealed, the worker bees of the world will fully comply with the work demands of their "betters", and hours will be spent doing nothing more productive than enhanced navel gazing. Almost all productive work will be performed by robots, so worker-bee efforts will be compensated poorly -- moreso with time. For the executive and owner classes, lording it over others is the prime motivator they have to get out of bed. Thus, it's a symbiotic relationship. The workers need to work, and the executives need lackeys. Still, the treatment of worker bees might get too degrading, and a backlash may occur … may, not will. If it does, it might be the issue of the next 2T.
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