[lm28469]

> We don’t. A hundred years the average man was putting in 7 to 7 shifts on the factory or the farm. Physically exhausting, dangerous and painful labor that required your physical presence and likely left you too exhausted for anything else.

This as been debunked countless of time, besides the dark ages of the industrial revolution people actually worked less than our 40-50 hours per weeks, every week of the year, from 20 to 65+

[xyzelement]

I am confident that if you were given the option of toiling like someone had to do 100+ years ago, you'd run back crying to your 42 hours a week German tech sector job after like an hour.

I can't help but notice that you're basically broadcasting signs of depression all over this thread. It's like "the answer is: everything is horrible and worse than even, what was the question?" I don't mean to pick on that but do you know this about yourself?

[lm28469]

Everything isn't worse and horrible, it's just that the value proposition shifted so much that it's not worth the effort, you have to run faster and faster to maintain the mirage. You get a deluge of cheap bells and whistles gadgets while the fundamentals keep getting further and further.

The social contract holds when you know your kids will have a better life than you did, when you notice you don't even have your grandparents standards you know it's fucked