[extropy-chat] The end of work, the leisure society, and automation

Spike spike66 at comcast.net
Mon Dec 15 07:42:01 UTC 2003


> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] The end of work, the leisure 
> society,and automation
> 
> It was all the rage among futurologists in the 70-80's. But it turned 
> out that people didn't want to use their higher income for 
> more leisure time. Rather they wanted more stuff.
> 
> So they kept working
> 
> regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark

Good thing too, eh?  The profitability of a worker goes up
as that worker spends more time at the office, for a lot of
reasons.  Much of the overhead associated with a worker, such
as the health care benefits, only need to be paid once regardless
of the amount of time spent.  Furthermore, a worker who is always
at the office tends to get more involved in the program, since
that becomes her life.

If everyone started slacking off, our cool stuff would be
much more expensive too, so not only would we have less money
but it would buy less, and lots of businesses would go under.  So:

Work is gooood, friends!  Its goooood for you, its good for
all of us.  Make lots of close friends in the office, liiive your 
work.  It helps if one really likes one's work, or has a really cool
job, and if one's spouse works in the same office with one.

spike




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