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 In any case: ''nice lack of work, if you can get it''.
-Now if something about this scenario nudges your implausibility hooter, that makes two of us. For one thing, from our [[perspective chauvinism|vantage point]], the last thirty-odd years have been one long [[Cambrian explosion]] of technology (''t’internet! iPhones! SETI@home! Uber! Drones!''), but so far ''no sign of any extra leisure time''. It has been quite the opposite experience. Work — new work, derivative work, previously unimagined work — is piling up. Granted, a lot of it is ''crap'' work: [[internal audit]], software [[change manager|change management]], six-sigma process analysis and [[talent acquisition]] — hardly the effervescent future we envisaged as wild undergraduate dreamers — but it definitely is work, and it definitely ''isn’t'' going away. (You do wonder: had our elders foreseen this new world of work, would they have told us? [[Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?]])
+Now if something about this scenario nudges your implausibility hooter, that makes two of us. For one thing, from our [[perspective chauvinism|vantage point]], the last thirty-odd years have been one long [[Cambrian explosion]] of technology (''t’internet! iPhones! SETI@home! Uber! Drones!''), but so far there is no sign of ''any'' extra leisure time.  Work — new work, derivative work, previously unimagined work — is piling up. Granted, a lot of it is ''crap'' work: [[internal audit]], software [[change manager|change management]], six-sigma process analysis and [[talent acquisition]] — hardly the effervescent future we envisaged as wild undergraduate dreamers — but it definitely is work, and it definitely ''isn’t'' going away. (You do wonder: had our elders foreseen this new world of work, would they have told us? [[Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?]])
 In any case, the unknowable ''then'' has coagulated into a crushing ''now'', and the reality is this: ''there is more work to do now than ever.'' Work is here, it is overwhelming, it is debilitating, and it is barricading the way to that chessboard in Στούπα, with no end in sight.