No, its not true.
The question you are asking ins a personality thing. Most folks work to live.
It's just the ones who are really loud are the workaholics.
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Because people stopped standing up for themselves.
Well, they are amusing themselves to death.
After I hit 40 hours I'm gone. I acknowledge there is a certain amount of privlege required to do that. It took me 20 years to get to that point but Im proud of it and I wanted to brag.
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Because living is more expensive now than before. In medieval times, you had a 30m² wooden house on your farm that you probably built yourself, no heater, no car, no brand clothes, no washing machine, no electricity at all, no water pipes, etc.
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Because when you work on a farm for yourself, you keep 100% of your work. When you work for a company, it keeps most of your work for itself and gives you some compensation in return that depends on a combination of "how much do you need for living" and "how easily could you find another job".
It’s not like that everywhere in the world, but certainly heading in that direction
Where I live, the corporate culture is very weird. Many people here took inspiration from Americans and we have corporate system kinda similar to US.
speak for yourself
I am just a student, mate. I have asked about what I feel I observed.
The more productive we have become the greater the opportunity cost of not working has become.
People generally tend to choose to work the same hours to afford more stuff.
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I work to live and everyone I know does. No one controls their work gig outside of finding it.