Fun fact: For most of human history, people didn't spend their entire lives working just to afford the privilege of being alive. Some anthropological estimates suggest that hunter-gatherers spent roughly 15–20 hours a week on subsistence activities. Meanwhile, many medieval peasants had numerous Sundays, religious holidays, and periods when agricultural work was less demanding, although their workloads varied enormously by season and region. Now look at modern life. You wake up early, rush to work, spend 8–10 hours making someone else richer, commute home exhausted, pay rent, buy groceries, pay bills, and go to bed knowing you'll have to do it all over again tomorrow. And for what? A tiny apartment you can barely afford? A few days of vacation a year? The hope of retiring when you're too old to enjoy the freedom you spent your entire life chasing? We've built a society where people can work full-time and still struggle to afford basic necessities, while the wealthiest accumulate fortunes most people couldn't spend in a hundred lifetimes. Technology was supposed to make our lives easier. Productivity was supposed to give us more freedom. Instead, so much of the wealth and efficiency we've created flows upward, while ordinary people are told to work harder, sacrifice more, and stop complaining. The problem isn't that humans are naturally meant to spend every waking hour working. The problem is a system that treats human time as a resource to extract rather than a life to be lived. You get one life. Your time is finite. And somehow, we've normalized spending most of it exhausted just to survive. If technological progress keeps making society more productive, why aren't ordinary people getting more free time, more security, and a better quality of life? Or was the promise of progress always meant for the people at the top?