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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.
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Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (via beccap)
Interesting idea…
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33 Incredible Hammocks You Need To Nap In
Rain makes me sleepy. This isn’t helping.
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Nobody says it better than Colbert.
Keep up your awesome, Boston.
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Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland
The key to a happier world is the growth of compassion. We do not need to become religious, nor do we need to believe in an ideology. All that is necessary is for each of us to develop our good human qualities.
There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.
— J.R.R. Tolkien (via wwavees)
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Examples of overwhelming kindness following the Boston Marathon explosions.
All of this just goes to show - events like this are completely hideous, and shatter the sense of security and self that many of us have in our homes… but the good shines through. Especially in a city as strong and resilient as Boston.
Prayers continue today, as they will, especially for peace to the families of those injured and killed, and justice to the people responsible.
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