Why Do We Still Work So Much Despite Automation

What really gets on my nerves is when you complain about having to spend the majority of your life being a wage slave and people respond with, "That's life."

George Bernard Shaw once wrote that all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world, whilst unreasonable people are the ones that change it, and we often confuse being rational with being conventional.

What is rational about spending the majority of your life working for someone else and only having freedom once you're too old to use it?

Of course, society needs people that are happy in conventional careers.

The problem is that one way of living has become the standard by which everyone else is judged.

Especially in an age where so much work has become automated, where are those freedoms that those automations were promising us?

Historical estimates suggest that English medieval laborers were working only up to 165 days a year.

In fact, in 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that technological progress would allow us to work just 15 hours a week by 2030. We've got four years to go.

How's that looking? A lot of people are aggressively critical of other career options.

I would know, being a so-called influencer.

I want people around me that challenge my ideas but also people that are capable of imagining a life beyond the life that they've chosen for themselves.

One of the most dangerous things you can do with your life is mistake another person's lack of imagination for your lack of potential.