>It's like humans enjoyed their time for millennia and only now we have to work.
Has nothing to do with the OP's comment, and it attempts to shift the conversation to justification.
>For all human history, the conditions of people were dire. Today people might be stuck in an office in their "best year", but people in the past had to toil all day to barely scrape by and didn't even have that many years to live.
Again, why are you doing this?
>It's only now that we live these comfortable lives with houses, heating, electricity, technology and a sea of information at our fingertips. These things all exist and keep functioning because people work.
Who is arguing against work in general? The article and the OP are discussing working conditions. Work doesn't have to be torture. America has a very unhealthy relationship with the idea of work and what it means. No pain no gain, right?
>And yet some think that "society has gone wrong", as if the past was paradise.
In the last 40-50 years, American society has taken some significant steps backwards, and the workers have felt it. If you're comparing conditions to hundreds or thousands of years ago, why? What is your goal?
>Work has been a human universal through history. There is surely an argument to be made about the fact that now we are so productive that we might not need to work as much as we had to.
At the same time I think we should be grateful that we live in the best life conditions ever seen by humanity.
You finally brushed against the point in your penultimate paragraph.
Has nothing to do with the OP's comment, and it attempts to shift the conversation to justification.
>For all human history, the conditions of people were dire. Today people might be stuck in an office in their "best year", but people in the past had to toil all day to barely scrape by and didn't even have that many years to live.
Again, why are you doing this?
>It's only now that we live these comfortable lives with houses, heating, electricity, technology and a sea of information at our fingertips. These things all exist and keep functioning because people work.
Who is arguing against work in general? The article and the OP are discussing working conditions. Work doesn't have to be torture. America has a very unhealthy relationship with the idea of work and what it means. No pain no gain, right?
>And yet some think that "society has gone wrong", as if the past was paradise.
In the last 40-50 years, American society has taken some significant steps backwards, and the workers have felt it. If you're comparing conditions to hundreds or thousands of years ago, why? What is your goal?
>Work has been a human universal through history. There is surely an argument to be made about the fact that now we are so productive that we might not need to work as much as we had to.
At the same time I think we should be grateful that we live in the best life conditions ever seen by humanity.
You finally brushed against the point in your penultimate paragraph.