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There's plenty of meaning up for grabs in parts of life that don't have anything to do with money.

nicely said, but the most significant (time-wise) portion of our lives is earning means to do other parts. if I am miserable for 8-9-10 hours per day chances are I will he fairly miserable the rest of the time as well…




That is exactly my point. We have designed the economy with the expectation that anyone able should be investing that much time to make ends meet, when we could lower our expectations and output to ease that burden instead. But that is an entirely radical paradigm shift in the direction of solar punk / degrowth that the world just doesn't seem interested in.


could not agree more. I look at this as basic economics, in order to “have more” you have basically two choices:

- increase earnings

- decrease expenses

In USA at least, I think the 2nd group is <1% of people




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