I had a brainwave [coincidentally when on my own free time holiday]. I had listened to a series of articles on long work hours in China, changes in American work hours versus others, and investigation into the national psyches behind national days. After all the talk about work vs leisure I realized that the general trend for work vs leisure time is less work and more leisure.
Industrialization, automation, AI – each wave of tech promised us we’d work less and have more time for our own pursuits. Indeed, I feel that as we make tools to take over our work load, we’ll have more attention to walk up Maslow’s Hierarchy.
Beware of what you ask for
Then, I thought back to some holidays I had, like Florence, where everything was mobbed and the sights were overrun and oversubscribed. If here in the US we gripe about travel during Memorial Day and Thanksgiving, I can’t image the gripes about travel during Chinese New Year.
Let’s just say Europe and North America start doing a three-day work week. And that the US starts making 5 weeks off normal (like lots of Europe).
Where are all the people going to go? Dubrovnik (pictured above) is always my example of over-tourism.
What if we have over-tourism all the f-ing time?
Yeah, free time is gonna kill the world. Let’s all just stay shackled to our desks.
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What do you think?
