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Well for one, no computers collating every persons value to the economy to buy and sell as and manipulate through targeted effort

Credit system didn’t exist, which conveniently grandfathered in all the Bloomberg, Trump, and other old money …obviously inheritance made them geniuses who deserved it

Basically Boomers came of age 40 years ago and needed something to do. So the 80-90 year olds of the day handed them all the power.

I mean come on. Do we really need to circumlocute the cause? Why the old rich people writing the rules and always winning is suspicious af still?

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All of that might be true, but it doesn't address my core question: why didn't people kick back and relax 50 or even 100 years ago? If people 50, 100, or 200 years ago made the choice to keep working hours constant rather than convert productivity gains into leisure, why is the choice to keep working hours constant today suddenly caused by malign influence of the powers that be?

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They did.

The average person worked fewer hours through almost all of recorded history until the last few decades.

They did not have vague “line go up” motives. They worked to stabilize biological necessity.

Workers today work more because of a large investor class that doesn’t. We’re working for two or more shareholders not our own roof and food.