02-03-2021, 12:05 PM
(02-03-2021, 11:56 AM)David Horn Wrote:(02-03-2021, 08:56 AM)Einzige Wrote: Boy, it's fascinating that a bunch of soon-to-be retirees want to keep the capitalist gerontocracy whole doing away with retirement! But your solution would probably be some kind of work-retirement, which is grotesque.
You miss the point. The need for productive human effort is and has been declining and will continue to decline until it disappears. John Maynard Keynes predicted 15 hour work weeks by now, but, if anything, we work more than we ever have. Worse, we've been conditioned to value ourselves almost entirely by our productive efforts, not on the contents of our characters. Saying 'nevermind' will change nothing -- at least not quickly. If we are going to be a leisure society with enrichment opportunities at our fingertips, then we need to begin a process of revaluation away from work-centric toward self-centric living. Assume that Boomers, Xers and most Millies are already lost causes. That's OK, because the work-free life is still decades away. Nonetheless, moving that way will be a saecular effort, so beginning now on slowly resetting our value structure makes sense. The real question: how?
It has to begin with getting rid of that class which promotes and requires for it's very existence as a class the work-centric society.