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If you remove all the fluff, this is basically just talking about retirement, where one is financially free to do whatever they want with their time. It's just reframed here as an alarmist novel concept. It probably is true that fewer people will reach that definition of retirement in the coming years (at least in the US where most people are spending such that they will never be free).
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I also question how important "online" is in the context of work. You're working for a set amount of time regardless of whether it's online or not. Free time, if you have any (if you don't, that's a separate issue) can be spent doing whatever you can afford offline. People aren't forced to spend leisure time online, are they?
And just about every retired person I know (most don't retire till their 70s) spends a significant portion of their time on facebook. They do often socialize, mostly drive around town slowly and cause traffic backups though. Florida got too expensive so they can't afford to leave anymore XD Probably a poor area type of thing.
