There’s a Little-Talked-About Revolution That Affects Us All.

And you’d better get ready.

Pat Vieljeux
2 min readNov 1, 2024

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Reid Hoffman, predicts that the 9–5 job will be gone in 10 years.

His prediction is implacably logical.

1- The 9–5 was born with the industrial revolution and developed to help rebuild countries destroyed by war.

Labor was needed. They arrived in masses.

2- Then the workforce settled in.

Going to work became the norm. Whether in a factory or a soulless tower block.

3- Universities drove the nail in. Training young people to fit the mold.

To the great satisfaction of their corporate benefactors.

4- In exchange for our lives, they offered us retirement.

With no guarantee that we’ll ever enjoy it.

But there’s a catch.

The 9.5 is no more natural to a human being than a cage is to a tiger.

Retirement even less so.

So it’s only to be expected that this model will one day collapse.

That day has come. The model so celebrated (especially by companies) is cracking.

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