51 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 6 Apr freebie \ parent \ on: Rant: Young People are Getting Terrible Advice and it's Destroying Our Culture culture
I also think we're living through the early stages of a radical reorientation of work-life balance.
One of the things we talk about in labor economics is that women lead a lot of labor market trends, because they tend to be more marginally attached to the workforce. It's one of the reasons we study female employment more than male. Men basically just work as much as they can until they die. Boring.
I think this makes sense in a society where the overwhelming majority of people are mercenaries. There is something romantic about the idea of working tirelessly when you are building something to pass on to the next generation (the family farm, or ranch, or family business). It seems a lot less romantic when it is sitting in a cubicle for endless hours for a megacorp with 100,000 other cogs in the machine to earn a bunch of fiat so you can buy a house and a car and put some money away for retirement and your epitaph reads "He worked for Dupont optimizing packaging costs for 50 years."
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That might be why we're seeing men beginning to work less than full-time for the first time ever. It's one of the emerging open questions.
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