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Productivity is mostly a vice.
Ah, the gods of productivity! How we worship them!
We act as if productivity is the most important thing on Earth, as if it’s more important than life itself. Indeed, we sacrifice the best days, years and decades of our lives to productivity. We work in offices and on factory floors, isolated from the planet, from the wind and stars and mountains and rivers.
We spend our time inside destroying that planet. And wasting our lives. In return, we (sometimes) get stuff…or at least the promise of more stuff. And, maybe sometime in the mythical future, we can stop going to the office and factory and—with whatever minimal energy and time we have left—finally live.
Unless, as we increasingly find, we can never retire and die at work. In which case, we wasted our entire lives working to destroy the planet and doom our children.
Don’t you think, just maybe, there’s something wrong with this?
Our Leaders and Systems Are Ridiculous
When people suffer because of austerity, they say it’s a necessary sacrifice which working people make to the god, Productivity. The executives and the wealthy and the authorities deem it so, and who are we to question them?
