This is why France tried the 4 day work week like 20 years ago. The problem is "skyscraper effect." Top tier countries are pretty darn close already to labor unsustainability. Not there yet, but it like the Balrog: you know its awakened.
By "labor unsustainability" I mean the equation of money-for-work, labor, will start to need increased "subsidy" in order for the entire system of "I must work" to remain politically viable as a social contract.
All kinds of subsidies are already in play, to make the wages the pure market can get you enough to keep you sane. From top to bottom, there is often some subsidy in some form, that helps the reality of the market wage not tilt workers toward going nuts. Even Ruch people get them. Because my theory is, everyone is about to go nuts. It's America. Apex country of apex predator. The higher the fewer.
At a certain point, in the US and other top tier countries, the pointlessness of labor will start to break through. labor is needed, but not so many hours, and so, where's my means to live? At this point, we reach the inflection point called, the obsolescence of labor.
That will hit harder and covid really accelerated the "mass consciousness" of how silly we are, going so nuts over money because my god she's about to blow. Lol. No she's not.
The "skyscraper effect" is that while nations like the US can transition to post-labor based political societies, billions of people in other countries are still about 100 years before they reach this point. These will be massive social changes.
Will these changes in the top floors cause the whole tower to sway and collapse?
Jet fuel might not melt steel beams, but this could.
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