| Personally, I fit into this group to a degree (I'm almost 40 -- not the same age group really). That said, I'm all about working. I just hate office life anymore. "Jobs" are passe, IMO. I'm burned out on it after 25 years, countless lines of code, and hours of effort having been expropriated from me. I'm tired of how hard it is to change specialties; not because I'm not smart enough, but because I don't have the time because I'm expected to fucking work all the time. I've had a few payouts from tech, but nothing to retire on for life. There's a serious inequity in working at an office when I've doing 40+ wks for years, struggled to get by a lot it, but the guy one level up the org char rolls in with his new Vette. Women seem to find it novel, since they haven't historically had access. So let em at it. Do we NEED this many people "working" on whatever the "free market" demands (which is usually just code for "within the highly moderated financial system"). I doubt it. IMO, the only economic output that society as a whole should be concerned with is education, healthcare, and the infra that enables those efforts. The rest is a farce. Consumption driven avarice. |