How About an Option to Get off the Treadmill?
A pro consumption rant from the BBC.
I’d like to ask the folks out there, whats wrong with having less and working less? I can always get more stuff later or get it cheap (yay $1 Book Store and Friends of the Library) but until someone comes up with a cure for aging I can’t get more time with the people I love. Folks thats something far more valuable than any new car.
Maybe we should find some kind of way (say a universal government support system) that would let people who have enough work less hours. Yes, you’d get smaller digs and less stuff but its not your job to prop up the economy here or in China. Consumption for the sake of someone else isn’t patriotic, just stupid.
What is your job to be happy though and chasing stuff for the sake of status is not going to get you there.
Time for a change.