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A comment on America’s ‘quiet catastrophe’: Millions of idle men.

Re:America’s ‘quiet catastrophe’: Millions of idle men by jlarocco on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @09:09PM (#12649342)
I don't necessarily think this is a bad thing, but it would be nice if the non-working time were allocated better. Instead of XX million people not working, get everybody working, but only 3 or 4 days a week.

It's kind of sad that we're more efficient than ever before, but instead of using that efficiency to give everybody more leisure and improve their lives we're forcing people to work crappy, low paying service jobs where they're struggling to survive.

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Re:America’s ‘quiet catastrophe’: Millions of idle men by solipsism on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @09:28PM (#12649436)
Why are you talking about crappy, low paying service jobs? This article is about people not working at all.

And why is XX million people not working a bad thing? This crappy article doesn't for a second question, much less investigate, what these "idle" people are doing with their time or how happy they are compared to those of us who are working for a living.

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