Toxic Productivity
So we&#x27;re just rehashing workaholism with a modern spin? We really are just living through a cycle that endlessly repeats. I&#x27;ve started reading books and listening to interviews done in the early 1980s and I&#x27;ve been astounded as to how the culture at the time was almost identical to what we&#x27;re doing now. It&#x27;s down right creepy but when I think about it it&#x27;s not unexpected. From my point of view, that&#x27;s exactly 1 generation. My peers and I have no memories of the period and so it makes sense that we haven&#x27;t learned any of the lessons from that time. Thus we&#x27;re doomed to repeat them now that we are the ones dominating the economy and the culture. It makes me wish for a more thorough survey of modern history to be taught in schools, I&#x27;m sure that with enough research you could identify significant trends that repeat on a regular basis which you could then teach to students so that they had some warning of what was to come and could perhaps break out of the cycle.