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Using your health to enrich yourself and increase the wealth of the richest man in the world is no longer really the dream horizon of the new generation. The term work itself has taken quite a hit since the Covid-19 pandemic. Signs of this are the layoffs and sudden job shortages that have spread across both the United States and Europe.
The study published on November 11th by the Jean Jaurès Foundation and signed by Jérôme Fourquet and Jérémie Peltier confirms this: when the French were asked in 1990 what was most important to them, 60% spontaneously indicated work. In 2021 it will be only 24%. Leisure, mentioned by 31% of respondents in 1990, now gets 41% of the votes, almost twice as much as work.
purchasing power crisis
When Nicolas Sarkozy presented his work Work more to earn more in 2007, more than 60% of French people said they were willing to limit their free time to make ends meet. Today it’s the other way around. In full tension for purchasing power, they equally admit to earning less in order to have more free time.
People go to the cinema less, do less sport and less outdoor activities. An “epidemic of laziness”, particularly pronounced among the under-50s
The health crisis, with its shortages, partial unemployment and the generalization of teleworking served as a revealer. The study’s authors evoke a “general softening of individuals.” People go to the cinema less, do less sport and less outdoor activities. An “epidemic of laziness”, particularly pronounced among the under-50s. The residents of the Paris region are hardest hit. The impressive expansion of telecommuting is not for nothing. The RATP recorded 18% less traffic on Friday than on Tuesday.
The roots of this spectacular shift run deep. It’s a whole value system that’s changing. “The sacralization of work and effort has been erased with the final shift in the Catholic matrix and the disappearance of the working-class and peasant world,” the study’s authors write.
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