{"id":1305,"date":"2011-09-09T12:49:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T12:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2011\/09\/the-shitty-thirty\/"},"modified":"2011-09-09T12:49:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T12:49:33","slug":"the-shitty-thirty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2011\/09\/the-shitty-thirty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shitty Thirty"},"content":{"rendered":"

At some point after reading about economic history of the West, it seems that everything went down with the 80s.<\/p>\n

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It also seemed like the 50s\/60s\/70s -what we call in France Les Trentes Glorieuses- were like the best years ever. Looking at these charts you can see very distinctly why: redistribution of wealth was successful, people were working more, for more and everything was cool. Everything made sense.<\/p>\n

I love to keep in mind that my grandparents and parents grew up and prospered with this environment. But you can already see on the first graph that at the start of the 60s, productivity was gaining traction faster than pay, thanks machines! It was almost invisible but it was happening. It\u2019s amazing to see that it follows social progress or lack of:  after 68-70 the hippie fantasy is over and oh, this is where we\u2019re starting to get screwed with a productivity rising much faster than pay, again thanks to machines and social consciousness withdrawal.<\/p>\n

But that was nothing. I\u2019m born in 1979. Look at the motherfucking graph! The next 30 years define what it is to not give a fuck and screw people over. Now we\u2019re talking.<\/p>\n

Today, I mean it\u2019s really hard to not think about giving up just about everything. Older generations don\u2019t or barely understand the insane world, paradigm we live in: we are asked to be multi-talented, to work a lot for a small pay and to not be upset about the fact that we\u2019re struggling to get a place to live. I mean, if all that stress and work were paying, I\u2019d be OK with it. That\u2019s what happened during the \u201cGlorious Thirty\u201d <\/em>in France and the West.<\/p>\n

But mastering so many skills, fighting for a good pay -within your company, with your client or with taxes- and fight to have a place, probably making yourself bleed to get it\u2026 It doesn\u2019t make sense and I feel so angry about that. Because we obviously know the solutions but the system profits a bigger generation than ours\u2026<\/p>\n

The good part is, I think it made us tough as shit. We\u2019re capable of facing problems, we\u2019re starving to find solutions and truth, we\u2019re extremely flexible and these are strengths that both generations around us -boomers and Yers- don\u2019t really have. These are good survival skills so we shall continue to do our thing and just stick to it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe question we have to begin to ask ourselves is not how do we employ all the people who are rendered obsolete by technology, but how can we organize a society around something other than employment? Might the spirit of enterprise we currently associate with \u201ccareer\u201d be shifted to something entirely more collaborative, purposeful, and even meaningful?\u201d
Douglas Rushkoff<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Looking at the past 60 years and thinking about all the kids you guys are making, I\u2019d say we need to shift pronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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