Our thanks to Greg for this (video, 2:20). The comedian at the outset of the video is the late, great Bill Hicks. He died at 32 of pancreatic cancer.
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Justice for Men & Boys 
This reminded me of this https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/the-4-day-work-week-is-spreading-people-are-burning-out/vi-AA1WZ9z9?ocid=socialshare from 2022 it trundles on about how Rich countries can afford to pay the same for less work, even a universal income. How quickly things date! Here in 2026 some of those rich nations’ economies contract or flatline. The tech. and finance industries roll back on WFH or Coffee shop. It turns out being a “rich country” isn’t a birthright but a product of productive work. As she speaks it becomes clear that its the administrative office workers she’s talking about and almost exclusively the examples are public services, paid for not by earning but by extracting taxes. The most hilariously out of date bit is the prospect of reducing the “carbon footprint”. Germany has indeed seen a reduction, simply because its energy crisis has seen its industrial base reduce dramatically and businesses and jobs relocate to other cheaper energy and wage countries. In the same way as has happened in the UK and France over a longer period. Inevitably she doesn’t even mention the vast swathes of jobs that men do building, maintaining, transporting, repairing, policing, protecting, rescuing, farming ….. well you get the picture. All the stuff that somehow is invisible to such female academics. Always its about less work and consumption oblivious it seems as to just how the wealth is generated.
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