No more graveyard shifts?

The Great Resignation -- maybe we should call what we're living the Great Labor Discontinuity -- has confused and confounded economists. Having been given some involuntary breaks by the pandemic from the endless of treadmill of meaningless jobs, some people seem to be thinking differently about work. And some are no longer willing to do jobs that destroy  body, mind and spirit.

Erudite Partner asks: An End to Shift Work?

Your doctor can’t solve your shift work issue because, ultimately, it’s not an individual problem. It’s an economic and an ethical one.

There will always be some work that must be performed while most people are sleeping, including healthcare, security, and emergency services, among others. But most shift work gets done not because life depends upon it, but because we’ve been taught to expect our patio furniture on demand. As long as advertising and the grow-or-die logic of capitalism keep stoking the desire for objects we don’t really need, may not even really want, and will sooner or later toss on a garbage pile in this or some other country, truckers and warehouse workers will keep damaging their health.

We are not even at the beginning of seeing what the Discontinuity might imply.