The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore
It&#x27;s pretty simple really.<p>If the reward from working is barely enough to cover the necessities, then there is technically no difference between working as a free citizen, and being forced to work as an indentured servant, other than a vague notion of freedom, which in that case is the freedom to decide between working and living on the streets.<p>And people don&#x27;t like being indentured servants. History should have made that clear by now.<p>People want perspective. In the past, a working man could support a family of five, buy a house, a car and afford vacation once or twice a year, plus save enough to retire comfortably.<p>Today people, despite burning themselves out in their job, struggle to pay rent in a flat shared with other working people, after loading themselves up with 100k in students debt, and no chance in hell to ever own property of their own.<p>If the powers that be want people to be willing to work, that work has to pay off.<p>If it doesn&#x27;t, well...we&#x27;re at the beginning of a retirement wave unprecedented in human history. 2 low-birthrate generations to follow. And our entire economic system is designed around constant growth.<p>I leave doing the math on that as an exercise for the reader.