“As a source of subsistence, let alone prosperity, work is now insufficient for whole social classes. In the U.K., almost two-thirds of those in poverty – around 8 million people – are in working households. In the US, the average wage has stagnated for half a century,” according to Andy Beckett for the Guardian.
“As a source of social mobility and self-worth, work increasingly fails even the most educated people – supposedly the system’s winners. In 2017, half of recent UK graduates were officially classified as ‘working in a non-graduate role.'” Beckett wrote.
“In the US, ‘belief in work is crumbling among people in their 20s and 30s,’ says Benjamin Hunnicutt, a leading historian of work. ‘They are not looking to their job for satisfaction or social advancement.’ You can sense this every time a graduate with a faraway look makes you a latte.”
Source: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/post-work-the-radical-idea-of-a-world-without-jobs
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