This is an irrelevant, dated BS academic study that instructs us, how we are supposed to think and feel/

Trying to own a home, plus house, clothe and feed ourselves and a family as wages stagnate while recurrent expenses skyrocket.

Reasonably well rewarded academia, may see no problem with that?

But may well be singing a very different song, when it's their occupation that is the one automated?

Just didn't see any of this coming as we traded an economy that made stuff, including textiles and footwear, for one far too reliant/almost exclusively, on highly vulnerable services.

Some of which are traded or sold, like education, as if they were an actual good!

Loaded questions may well garner information important to a particular political spin? But tell us a lot less than voting intentions may?

People don't need too clever by half, academia, deciding what the issues are, so the powers that be, can continue trading away our heritage, rights and a viable future.

And the end of the day, intellectually arrogant academia? Just don't have to make or produce the very stuff that buys their degrees, salaries and generous retirement incomes.

And as always skirt around the real issues, pertaining to the quality of life? i.e., An affordable habitable owned home, affordable energy, winter heating/summer cooling reliable potable water. Affordable health care/education.

Law and order crackdowns fix none of that!

Take the same survey today from the 40+ percent now living below the poverty line. Even as do nothing dithering pollies worry about how they are going to protect their jobs, lifestyles, quality of life and retirement incomes.

As they storm around the country saying, you can have any kind of base load energy you want, as long as it's carbon loaded black coal!

It doesn't matter, it's only your money we're burning. Me I'm okay, I've over a hundred negatively geared residences you're are paying for or subsidising!

So I'll be okay jack, the taxidermist is two streets across one street down and second on the right after the corner.
Alan B.

Look, the quality of life and standards of living are inextricably entwined.

If you're as reliant on wind turbines and intermittent wind,need backup gas, with a turbine that's essentially a gas powered jet engine.

However this wastes heat and energy, and has an energy coefficient of just 30%, with 70% going out the exhaust as heat? The law of thermodynamics?

So why not install a later more efficient version that also heats water to make steam and double the energy coefficient to 60%?

Well that takes at least an hour to power up and too slow to keep the network humming along, without going into a entire network shutdown overload? That could take days to correct?

So we're stuck with the jet engine backing up wind turbines, which together, can only manage a 45% energy outcome as reliable on demand power?

So, why not just the gas powered plant that also makes steam to drive turbines and give a 60% reliability on their own? And critical when you are using arc furnaces 24/7, that cannot cope with shut downs that last for more than a few minutes! Yet are priced out of a sustainable energy supply market by combinations, with a 45% reliability factor and doubled costs?

Better to go completely gas 60% reliability. And prices hovering around 30 cents PKH?

Or walk away safe, molten salt thorium, which ivy league Professor and economist Professor Hargreaves, has predicted a median price for, as privately operated power, with a median wholesale of $1.98PKH?

Now, energy that cheap, would not only return and resuscitate our manufacturing sector! But underpin affordable, standard of living based, quality of life!

What prevents it?

Just diabolically dumb antinuclear regulations that apply a broad brush to all nuclear, even peaceful purpose only. That could earn annual billions, reprocessing largely unspent fuel or designated nuclear waste!

And coal miners can get other safer more permanent jobs in a resuscitated and turbocharged, manufacturing sector. Minus, black lung disease and the quality of life that brings!
Alan B.

Quality of living beats standard of of living any time.
There is a lot more to life than mere collection of possessions.

Quality of life and living standards. Are never ever, mutually incompatible goals!

Two thirds of the world's households are places without a washing machine! And the soiled garments taken to a nearby watercourse for washing, or done by hand with water drawn by hand from a well. In a ritual nearly as old as human civilisation.

Dawn to dark gut busts or slogs just to survive is hardly quality! Nor is freezing in a cramped bed sit during winter or being fried alive during a record heat wave!

So some amenity like affordable shelter replete with a few labor saving devices, and comfort, adds to both the quality of life and living standards.

Ditto affordable energy, health and education. And it's just not hard!

Except when you're just a number/mushroom in part of a captive and routinely screwed market!

And are only ever taken seriously or asked for permission come election time. Guys like ateday will themselves be old one day and may even have comfortable nest eggs purloined by sharp practise or cyber crims?

And then have to cop what they thought was okay for everyone else! What goes around, comes around!
Alan B.