The hamster wheel

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/opinion/work-busy-trap-millennials.html?referringSource=articleShare

This article sums up a huge influence of mine. The way present day workers slave away with much longer hours than dark aged serfs doing work that is not essential and contributes to poisoning the world.

Automation was supposed to give us leisure, but in the end, productivity is everything. Even when the product ends up in a giant garbage patch in one of the oceans.