> “We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for weekends, for vacations, and for retirement; moreover, this ambition seems to be classless, as true in the executive suites as on the assembly lines. One works not because the work is necessary, valuable, useful to a desirable end, or because one loves to do it, but only to be able to quit - a condition that a saner time would regard as infernal, a condemnation.”
This is so spot on. We (assuming you live in the US) live in a country where the purpose is to work for as little as possible, "grind," then throw money into an index fund and have it support us the rest of our lives. Own property, while having the bottom 50% of society continually support us in the gig and service economy.
Look, I'm no Bernie Sanders, but you have to be honest about the morality of it, and the feasibility of it. I don't see the current system lasting.
> “We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for weekends, for vacations, and for retirement; moreover, this ambition seems to be classless, as true in the executive suites as on the assembly lines. One works not because the work is necessary, valuable, useful to a desirable end, or because one loves to do it, but only to be able to quit - a condition that a saner time would regard as infernal, a condemnation.”
> - Wendell Berry