There is much more to life than work. We all have families, friends, and a beautiful world to enjoy. We need more time off to enjoy it.

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[–] 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, considering how much more efficiency we've gained, we should all be working much, much, much less.

And not just the obscenely rich parasitic class of billionaires like fElon who supposedly do "work" running/ruining companies like xitter and Tesla, etc...

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

    In economics, the Jevons paradox(/ˈdʒɛvənz/; sometimes Jevons effect) occurs when technological advancementsmake a resource more efficient to use (thereby reducing the amount needed for a single application); however, as the cost of using the resource drops, if demand is highly price elastic, this results in overall demand increasing, causing total resource consumption to rise.[1][2][3][4] Governments have typically expected efficiency gains to lower resource consumption, rather than anticipating possible increases due to the Jevons paradox.[5]

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