Why do we have to "Work so Hard" to make a living?

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22. see Ted Rall's "Revenge of the Latch-key kids"

Chapter 7 - Slack off for a better America.

"As Juliet Schor, author of "The Overworked American", says, society could choose to exploit the postwar productivity gain in any of several ways:
* we could all have double salaries
* we could be working twenty hour weeks
* we could work six months a year

Instead, some of us are working multiple jobs with insanely long hours for low wages, while others can't find work at all.

The money generated by that hidden boom in productivity didn't disappear. The vast majority of it went to create an unprecedented upper strata of wealthy Americans." pp 66-67

That's why you, and me, and everyone else, has to work hard. Because those at the top are stealing as much as they can to leave the rest with as little as possible. You have to work to get your own slice of the pie and to keep those at the top well supplied with whipped cream.