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What happens when you work more than needed to acquire material necessities? You WASTE YOUR SHORT PRECIOUS LIFE producing crap for idiots.
Productivity and production, up to a point, is good. We must have healthy food, functional clothing, shelter, medicine and the like. It may even be worth additional effort and time to make the food tasty and the clothing and shelter attractive. But at least 90% of labor is useless, and even destructive.
Work isn’t a virtue. After a certain amount, it’s destructive. Work uses energy, usually dirty energy, and—in addition to the portion of your life it wastes—it ruins the Earth for its inhabitants. Including ourselves and especially for our children and grandchildren.
Excessive work is a crime against humanity. It’s deadly. It’s wasteful. It’s underpinned by greed and selfishness and, among elites, an addiction to luxuries and power. Too much work, which is what nearly everyone on Earth does, is an abomination.
Life is short and should be lived fully. Not wasted on useless and destructive activities.
To produce only what’s needed, we would probably work maybe 10% of what we do today. So, what about that additional 90%, the greatest portion of the GDP? That’s the misery index. Our time is our life and any unneeded labor is costly, and that costs the most…
