Does anyone else feel that work is the largest social problem, yet the least recognized?
People often spend half (if not more) of their waking hours working. But many jobs are unfulfilling and provide very little benefit to the employee other than a salary. A salary which is mostly spent on physical survival (eg. food, shelter, clothes, gas) so they can continue to work. Let's say you write banking software. How much benefit do you personally get from your labour? I'm certain theirs a plethora of BS jobs that provide very little benefit to the employee, employer, or society.
I would argue that work is the largest contemporary constraint of freedom. A worker has no or little control on when the work is done, how it is done, how long they work, or where they work from.
Many white collar (maybe blue too?) spend 50% or more of their working hours not doing any work at all. Why must someone spend 8 hours a days doing something that takes 4 or less!
If this social problem was remedied, we would have a much happier and healthier society.