To jump on your point, and tangent to something else I've been thinking about, I believe a huge problem with "wealthy" societies now is the lack of actual productive work...
Like, agriculture produces something of value. So does manufacturing. So does primary production. So does construction. These things formed the bulk of tenable employment until fairly recently (at least for men), and they actually CREATE something of tangible value to society, in the process...
Most (high paying, "desirable") work now, service work at least, produces nothing of actual value. Academia, admin, "management", HR, finance, all the other completely pointless "make work" jobs we have created for ourselves - these produce NOTHING of tangible physical value, except perhaps bytes of data, and paperwork. Doing these jobs, you don't feel the same sense of achievement, the same... Mateship and teamwork, or indeed expend anywhere near the same physical effort as the other jobs I mentioned, and yet... They are where the money is, and what we are told to ascribe to...
I think that's a massive part of all that is wrong with our society, and if we continue down this path... I honestly believe that we will likely end up closer to "Fall of Rome" than "fully automated luxury auto gay space communism", like the fags over at r/Stupidpol seem to believe we are headed for, lol...
Yeah, this seems fairly apt...
To jump on your point, and tangent to something else I've been thinking about, I believe a huge problem with "wealthy" societies now is the lack of actual productive work...
Like, agriculture produces something of value. So does manufacturing. So does primary production. So does construction. These things formed the bulk of tenable employment until fairly recently (at least for men), and they actually CREATE something of tangible value to society, in the process...
Most (high paying, "desirable") work now, service work at least, produces nothing of actual value. Academia, admin, "management", HR, finance, all the other completely pointless "make work" jobs we have created for ourselves - these produce NOTHING of tangible physical value, except perhaps bytes of data, and paperwork. Doing these jobs, you don't feel the same sense of achievement, the same... Mateship and teamwork, or indeed expend anywhere near the same physical effort as the other jobs I mentioned, and yet... They are where the money is, and what we are told to ascribe to...
I think that's a massive part of all that is wrong with our society, and if we continue down this path... I honestly believe that we will likely end up closer to "Fall of Rome" than "fully automated luxury auto gay space communism", like the fags over at r/Stupidpol seem to believe we are headed for, lol...
/endrant