Good newsletter here from Anne Helen Petersen about different ways we’re all feeling burned out, and how that’s leading to supposedly “radical” views like embracing Universal Basic Income in the future. There are lots of good quotes from her readers in here, including stuff like:
“I’m basically convinced that a 25-hour work week with five 5-hour days would be at least as productive as our current system.”
Yea. I’ve been saying that for seven years. Not sure anyone listens, tho.
Now, in the whole newsletter, this might be the best part. It’s obvious to some, but not to many:
There’s an impulse, sometimes, to compare those bogeymen with some of the forces invoked by collectivists — that identifying “capitalism” as the source of societal ill is no less ridiculous than, say, “critical race theory.” But there are differences, and they’re largely directional. One form of radicalism identifies the problem with the existing world, and wants to rebuild it into something new. The other form identifies the problem with what they view as the encroaching world, and wants to preserve the status quo — or revert to a previous one, in which they and others like them (particularly in race, but also in age, and vocation, and location) can recoup some of the societal privilege they’ve “lost.”
