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I wonder why as a society we don’t work less: then we would merely have less things, but we would gain more time…. Personally, I’d choose time over things.  But it seems that human society actually reveres the creation and peddling of crap wares.  If we’re not doing that we might as well not be alive.  But why?  What is everyone afraid is going to happen?  Why must we build everything and anything above and beyond basic food and shelter?  I’m not saying I’m completely against doing this, I’m simply questioning that we MUST do it, or do it to the extent that we do now.  Why do we put so much value in such valueless things?  “You get to have a home and food becuase you make ipods or websites”  but not “you get to have a home and food because you are a human being“  that never happens.  It’s as if we posit material goods and the destruction of the planet as more valuable than human life.  Can someone please tell me why it’s this way?  Why does our society seem only to function on and reward the consumption of more resources when it seems obvious that we need to be using less resources?  Maybe it’s the elites that put us on our empty task; an army of workers shoveling gold into the mouths of a few elite capitalists…