1. 30 countries will move toward this within the next 5 years.
2. It won’t even enter American political discourse for 5, 10 or 15 years from now.
3. If it’s proposed it will incite a moral panic, as the usual suspects raise the alarm about the specter of communism, a lazy labor force, etc.
4. Measures of lifespan, health-span and well-being will increase in the countries that adopt it. These same measures will fall in the U.S. and virtually no one will notice.
5. The usual rhetoric about American exceptionalism and USA #1 will carry on as usual.
I would say your prediction is dead-on.
Yup
People were pushing for this IN THE 1930s let’s get on with ‘the future’ of work
A
new American dream has gradually replaced the old one. Instead of
leisure, or thrift, consumption has become a patriotic duty.
Corporations can justify anything—from environmental destruction to
prison construction—for the sake of inventing more work to do. A liberal
arts education, originally meant to prepare people to use their free
time wisely, has been repackaged as an expensive and inefficient
job-training program. We have stopped imagining, as Keynes thought it so
reasonable to do, that our grandchildren might have it easier than
ourselves. We hope that they’ll have jobs, maybe even jobs that they
like.
The
new dream of overwork has taken hold with remarkable tenacity. Hardly
anyone talks about expecting or even deserving shorter workdays anymore;
the best we can hope for is the perfect job, one that also happens to
be our passion. In the dogged, lonely pursuit of it, we don’t bother
organizing with our co-workers. We’re made to think so badly of
ourselves as to assume that if we had more free time, we’d squander it.
fashion trend cycles used to last like 20 years and now they last like 3 months… tv shows used to get like 20+ episodes a season but now they get like 6 and its all released at once and then people forget about it like what are we headed towards lol
deadass saw a cringe comp video that said at the beginning “some of the videos are actually funny, ironic or heartwarming because I want you to use your own judgment and learn critical thinking”
when i was a teenager it felt very revolutionary to be cruel to myself. like some kind of slow passive protest against how much everything hurt. i starved myself of sleep and food and tenderness because it felt right. it felt sharp and angry and radical and i wanted to be those things. adulthood is the realisation that the world is already working to cut into you well before you learn how to do it yourself. caring for yourself and others is the real protest
“being gay isn’t just about having sex” but also sex and physical intimacy is an important part of my sexuality as a gay man and gay sex is a beautiful thing and we should defend people’s right to have gay sex because it’s cool and fun and healthy
gay sex is criminalized in many places and is harshly punished and stigmatized virtually everywhere. that your ‘gay sex is gross’ jokes are cruel and homophobic and not funny . gay sex is natural and good for you and makes you better than everybody else
It’s so weird to me that over the last month, I’ve INCREASED followers without posting anything lmao. Anyway, here’s a more recent picture of me. I’m still putting on muscle.
So here’s a list of socials in case y’all wanna follow, in order of active-ness. (VERY NSFW under the readmore, so heads up if you know me irl and don’t wanna see. IN FACT, IF YOU KNOW ME IRL AND AREN’T GAY OR INTO GAINING, DON’T LOOK AT THIS)
