But even if that point does not come, rapid technological change is instilling anxiety about future employment: anxiety that makes it hard to appreciate and enjoy what productivity creates.
Nowadays, the coverage of events such as the two Malaysia Airlines disasters earlier this year is so immersive, it can instil sustained anxiety or trauma in some viewers, even if their own experiences of flying have been positive.
At mid-century, schools were instilled with Cold War anxiety; the subtext of films like "Blackboard Jungle" and "Rebel Without a Cause" was not only the perils of dissolute youth but also the dangers posed by families and schools that were seen as failing to meet the Soviet challenge.
This was vintage Bibi: instilling fear and anxiety, retreating to outright racism against Israel's Arab citizens, portraying his opponents and critics as traitors, and standing up to the powers that be – President Obama, the old leftist elite, the mainstream media, and former generals and intelligence chiefs who opposed him.
Then ignore the financial media which has a vested interest in instilling fear and anxiety.
"The indictments have instilled a great deal of uncertainty and anxiety in our community.
At the British Sociological Association postgraduate day, the consensus from students in the room was that the viva instilled fear and apprehension in candidates, coupled with anxieties of not being good enough and being ambushed by an unfavourable panel.
The 18th-century worry about female literacy is not unlike the contemporary anxiety that Web use above all makes girls vulnerable to "predators": "Without this poison instilled, as it were, into the blood, females in ordinary life would never have been so much the slaves of vice".
The coach instilled pride.
"He instilled intimidation and fear".
He instilled an attacking philosophy.
