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But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work.
We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.
"Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (via commanderspock)
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"I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person."
Franz Kafka, from a diary entry dated 23 March 1914 (via larmoyante)
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looked forward to come home and draw while working but when I came home I didn’t feel like it at all. weird. so I just coloured a really old drawing I made of Little My. I
I must be very self centered since I only portray myself.
doodlin’ and listening to Todd Terje
I dunno what has happened here but I love it. Pettson, Findus and pancake cake.
