Published: 2026-01-03
Last Updated: 2026-01-03
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Workplaces are changing and are different in family areas where availability for dependents is prioritized over work performance. This means that work is symbolic in these areas instead of a necessity or requirement. Ample government programs often help with income when work is not acceptable due to the concept of being available for a dependent. A child with a fever, a husband with a broken heart, a jealous girlfriend who is still not pregnant. The costs of a caretaker are often the same or more expensive and the employer is rarely willing to pay for them anyways.
In adult areas, meaning there are little to no families, work is different. The workplace is the center of someone's day, week, or month, and everything else revolves around that cognitive orbit of work. Work can be competitive and there are minimum income thresholds of rent, food, and utilities. A low wage job offer is more often an examination of math comprehension and not necessarily correlated to prejudice, discrimination or bad economic conditions in the area.
Most people will get much more money than this. Enough to go out with friends, take vacations on a long range train, or plane, and enough for clothing and small modest gifts on occasion. Some people will have enough wages for a little more than a monthly transport pass. They might be able to finance a car, but it might make more sense to use public transport and a chauffeured driving service on the weekend.
Work competitions are often refrained in these environments, additional pay is available only until a certain pay threshold has been met. Then there are no additional wages for extra performance. Work can be easy for some. Definitely not boring but far from difficult, extraneous, or stressful. Life outside of work can be fun, especially in places where a large percentage of the population checks the law for their desired behavior, ensuring there is no illegal conduct in their out of work activities.
Vape, mixed alcoholic drinks, and translucent or colored caffeine drinks are available outside of work, and some employers even allow up to 2 drinks for lunch. Many workers are straight edge, refraining from any harm inducing activities, even if they are legal. They may occasionally take two weeks off from work to induce an insomnia causing level of caffeine before returning to work sober, well balanced, and ready to complete work requirements to quality specifications and performance levels. Plus they still take their regular vacation, often out of town on a plane or train.
Some of the straight edge, are hoping for a partner to start a family with. They might drink 1/2 a serving of alcohol a few times a year. They go to work, perform well, eat healthy and treat people with kindness and respect. Its hard not to eat healthy with all the nutritionists and dietitians around. Food seems to be available, delicious and served in small portions. Its hard to get hungry though, the food always seems to be satisfyingly filling. Many people skip meals and two meals a day is more normal for people who don't snack throughout the day instead.
One of the strange parts of adult environments is interacting with the kids who do work virtually as young as 12. Its not considered child labor however, they perform just as well as some adults and is part of their economic freedom rights. Many will be done with high school by 15 years old and moving to an adult area between the ages of 20 and 25 if they don't start a family where they currently live.
This has caused many workplaces to become more virtualized on the spirit of innovation and economic freedom. People complete work tasks and submit the completed work to a computer that has time estimates for different tasks and the number of tasks that would be expected to be completed in an 8 hour day. Most people complete their tasks in 5-6 hours and those taking longer have an assistant that helps them understand the work requirements in order to complete their estimated 8 hour day. Few executives work 10-12 hours which is considered a full double shift and estimated at 16-20 hours, on average throughout the week and month. Most people work from home and only visit the office for a change of pace from their home office or to work in a different environment and collaborative setting.
Work is going towards more automation, and viewed as a good thing. The first question asked when someones job is automated is most often "How will I pay my rent, food, and utilities?" instead of exclaiming "How dare you take my job away?".
The focus at most workplaces is space travel, environmental science, ocean exploration, agriculture, building cities, and rural lifestyles. Every job is somehow related to these basic concepts including traditional jobs like financial modeling and legal services. IT jobs are rare, most systems have already been automated and exceeded the usefulness of Moore's law. There are occasional repairs needed that require a multi-step approval process.
Labor jobs, which have transitioned to robotics are available but often low stress and not very extraneous. Most people will find it difficult to find a labor job and will opt for retail, warehousing, shipping, or driving instead. Eventually these jobs will be done mostly by robotics as humans focus on traveling between Earth and a -300 degree moon atmosphere to document the affects of human life on space objects and lifescapes.
Workplaces are definitely different than sometime in the recent past and working for 2 years can feel like time traveling into the future. The average trip to the moon will take 5 to 15 days for most people.