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We have too much work and too little time. When will we talk about this? How about NOW?
Happy Labor Day!
For all the alleged advancement of civilization, people everywhere live in abject poverty. They have very little life—only what they can squeeze in after returning home exhausted from work. This is time poverty.
We’ve vastly improved worker productivity, and invented innumerable labor saving devices, yet none of this has had any measurable effect. Billions of us are working 40+ hours per week (or 60 or 80) for decades. When and if we can retire, the damage has already been done. And we typically live out the remainder of our lives on a tight fixed income or in literal poverty.
I would like to point out two things that should be obvious.
- This is a waste of billions of lives, and
- There is no Earthly reason why we need to keep doing this.
Think how CRAZY this is! We spend our whole lives seeking to make enough money to have some time to live. And few of us are fortunate enough to achieve this.
We think this is normal. We think this makes sense. We think this is just the way life is. We think there is no alternative.
Our thinking is muddled because we are tired, and because others are telling us what to think, and we…
