99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life

Description The author details compelling evidence that Americans work longer and harder for increasingly diminished rewards. He compares the American way of work unfavorably to France and other countries, which maintain greater productivity despite larger benefits and fewer working hours. He also dispels the myth of the Puritan ethos that hard work assures its own rewards. That if one expends enough energy, passion, and time at the labor, success will follow. However, with ample evidence in this book to refute that belief, it is a certainty that Americans have been sold a bill of goods by those who would profit enormously from the labor of their workers. He doesn’t see that AI offers a better way of existence for those who are used and then replaced by robots. His solution is the guaranteed income so that people can buy food and exist, albeit at a minimal level. Surely, that little investment in children and their families can reap rich rewards regarding the American way of life and living—an essential read.