[Luffy]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

That is because of how our society is arranged, and to be honest, I hate it. Because of work, I have to pause my daily life for at least 10 hours a day.

Spoiler:

You can only use money to buy the things you need. You even need money if you don't want to buy anything, if only to be able to live somewhere.

Most people have to try and get money from those who already have it: rich people, or companies. For most, the only way to do that is to provide skills that those rich people/companies need, and society is arranged so that you need to work for 8 hours to be able to live a decent life. Even if you earn a huge amount of money and could get by with working for only 20 or even 10 hours, most jobs are laid out in such a way that this isn't possible.

Somewhere in the not too distant future, there will be problems. More and more jobs are now filled by automating them. At some point, it's impossible for everyone to keep working; there just isn't enough work left to do, and the work that *is* left will be so high level that only people with at least a Bachelor degree will be able to do it.... and it seems that only 25% of the people have the capability to attain such a degree. (In the Netherlands.)

Thanks for the spoiler content.