We're WEIRD. Get over it.

[David Horn]

(03-02-2021, 10:20 AM)Captain Genet Wrote:

(02-28-2021, 10:03 AM)beechnut79 Wrote: Same thing happened in the US as well as culture turned more conservative during the Reagan years as the AIDS scare effectively killed off the so-called sexual revolution. Went from overly hedonistic to overly workaholic nearly overnight, thus making liars out of all those futurists who had predicted that the new technology would lead to a world of ever increased leisure. Do you think we’ll ever see that once all but promised world of leisure ever arrive?

Life of productive work is better than a perpetual holiday. Age of Discovery aristocrats lived without work, and we all know how degenerate they became.

That may be a future risk to address in time, but not now.  Most of us will coast-out on the old work paradigm, since the replacement of us with machines is still decades off.  Millennials may be at risk of seeing this near the end of their lifetimes.  The younger gens almost certainly will much earlier in theirs.  Even then, the Era of Work will not be totally behind us, but work will start looking like a hobby rather than a source of income.  How is still TBD.