Comment by throwaway4aday

So we're just rehashing workaholism with a modern spin? We really are just living through a cycle that endlessly repeats. I've started reading books and listening to interviews done in the early 1980s and I've been astounded as to how the culture at the time was almost identical to what we're doing now. It's down right creepy but when I think about it it's not unexpected. From my point of view, that's exactly 1 generation. My peers and I have no memories of the period and so it makes sense that we haven't learned any of the lessons from that time. Thus we're doomed to repeat them now that we are the ones dominating the economy and the culture. It makes me wish for a more thorough survey of modern history to be taught in schools, I'm sure that with enough research you could identify significant trends that repeat on a regular basis which you could then teach to students so that they had some warning of what was to come and could perhaps break out of the cycle.