Why is everyone so busy? (2014)
I recommend people watch Japan A story of love and hate (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymotion.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;x56bwzc" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymotion.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;x56bwzc</a>) which, aside from being a great look at Japan, epitomizes the absurdity of exchanging our time for a salary that increasingly fails to cover the cost to live and leaves us without free time. 30,000 Japanese kill themselves each year due to work related stress.<p>Great quote from the doc:<p>Naoki:&quot;You (the West) game me this f*cking Capitalist system 100 years ago...&quot;<p>Cameramen: &quot;And now you&#x27;re rich&quot;<p>Naoki: &quot;Is this rich...is this a good system?&quot;<p>I hope - and expect - that one day offices are viewed in the same way we view the factories of the early industrial age: prisons of drudgery and misery.<p>I&#x27;m not naive, civilization and its innumerable benefits (like actually being able to live past 65) has a cost. But the notion that sitting in traffic each morning to reach a room where one stares into a screen for 9 hours - every day, for 40 odd years - is desirable is the greatest con capitalism has ever pulled.