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Funny thing, we're still treating our workers like shit, paying them a pittance and forcing them to do overtime without overtime pay.
So i call shenanigans.
Also we have intergenerational dysfunction in which insufficient parental engagement figures largely. My generation were latchkey kids, sorely neglected, and it's only gotten worse. Parents are too exhausted to parent.
Also we have a pronounced lack of civic engagement. People just can't take the time to adequately learn their needs from the state and petition their representatives.
So the 20-hour work-week is to allow humans to do human things, rather than exist as an interchangeable, disposable unit in a machine.
Here in the states we recognizes this alway was intended, and is just bonded servitude with extra steps. Because our landowners weren't willing to give up wealth and power for the good of society.
The current demand for specific specialists in specific fields notwithstanding, We've turned our secondary education system into a debt-bondage scheme for which actually training professionals is a secondary and often underfulfilled priority.
Which is to say, our society thought exploitation for short-term gain,and control of the proletariat was more important than making sure there were caretakers and doctors enough to go around.
The older generations knowingly bought the ticket to ride this train.
And the millennials younger can expect a global run of population corrections that will define their lives and possibly end civilization. Everything that is important now (more money for billionaires) will be meaningless then.