How much time do you spend working? The norm is to have a 40-hour work week and an eight-hour work day. Eight hour days have been around since the late 1800s and early 1900s in Europe. Despite incredible technological advancement this remains the same even to this day. We get taught that working hard is something good and something we should take great pride in. But why do we work? Is it for survival? So that we can afford some free time? Not really. We work for financial growth. We want to produce more, so we can hire more and create more jobs. More consumers with disposable income. It doesn't have to be that way. Think about it. Do we, for example, spend time creating technology for agriculture because it's inefficient to do so? Of course not. Before the industrial revolution, a farmer could feed their family and their neighbors. Today, that same farmer, with access to modern technology, can feed hundreds if not thousands of people. And he or she will spend less time doing so. Why do we waste so much time working in stores? Warehouses? Transporting bottled water? We should strive to work less, not more. That way we could spend our time doing what's meaningful to us. We shouldn't have to worry about being late for work and potentially get fired from our "opportunity" to make money for rich people. Unfortunately, consuming is in our very nature. As long as there are consumers there will be businesses trying to make us consume more and grow so they can hire more potential consumers. Any ideas as to how this vicious cycle can be broken? Can it be done peacefully or will it take a revolution? Do we need to make it impossible for businesses to make profits? What are your thoughts?

/Fiore del Partigiano