as long as they get their immediate needs met.
That's almost like survival mode. Perhaps it's instincts kicking in, especially with the last two years where it's hard to even predict a future.
Time flies by way too fast! You mention 2024 for retirement and I still think that's ages away, but it's only a couple of years now. 2000 only seems like yesterday, it can't be nearly 2024 already!
Slavery today isn't working for a wage - it is not working for a handout.
I wouldn't have thought to put it that way, but it's an accurate assessment. Actually you description of it as being like a pet is even better. Unfortunately, we are being squeezed more and more into a position where we are reliant on the state in some form. Even to get work now there are so many hoops to jump through. Last time hubby had a medical, the drugs test required him to pee in a pot and there was a camera in the cubicle to make sure it was his urine...for women they have someone standing just outside the cubicle, although thankfully no camera, as far as I'm aware. The feel is more prisoner than slave at that point...
Tell me about it! I can't possibly be as old as I am...
It can't be by coincidence. This is the antithesis of what governments would have been aiming for a few decades ago.
That is insane about the drug testing. I haven't ever had to have one, though because I do some work for a military contractor occasionally, I do have background checks done yearly or so. But, no cubicles!
I don't know where we will end up, but I don't think we should make it easy going for the direction we are currently headed.