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In reply to the discussion: Why do we have to "Work so Hard" to make a living? [View all]shcrane71
(1,721 posts)This morning I was wondering an economy can be structured to get more and more productivity out of workers without providing upward mobility? How to get more work out of a worker while giving a lower living standard than his father had? I think the answer is to forget the worker -- get his wife and daughter to do the work. Women make less money, and they're earning more of the degrees in the US, while not holding as many management positions.
In a beehive, the females are the workers, and the queen has all the babies. That provides a pesky problem for inefficient humans who use almost all females to reproduce the population. What if one could build a society that provided almost no maternity leave, and legislated NO time off for sickness or leisure? This is a hostile environment for working females wanting to raise a family. Instead, maybe super females could be used -- these women would have as many children as possible, sometimes up to or more than 20 offspring within a lifetime. To encourage these super females, maybe there could be a cable television program to encourage such behavior -- the working females won't have time to watch television as they're too busy working two or more underpaid jobs.
But what of those idle males in society who aren't graduating at the rate that the productive females are? Well, there's always war to keep the males busy and kill off the excess population.
I always heard when I was growing up that bees would take over the world in case of a nuclear holocaust -- because they're so efficient. Seems those soothsayers were incorrect as bees are disappearing at an alarming rate. I wonder where those old "experts" got the idea that bees were so much more efficient than humans?