There is obviously a natural tendency in homo sapiens to work too hard gathering far more wealth than he can ever use. Some call it the protestant work ethic but somehow I don't see what anybody's religion has got to do with it.
I bet it goes back to a time when food was hard to come by. If you lived on old bones left behind by lions you would probably take home more than you could eat in case there were no more for the rest of the week. ("What's a week" I here some caveman ask.) Up here in Northern Europe those who hoarded the most food and firewood for the winter were the ones who survived.
This habit no doubt got us to the moon but a little common sense should tell us that it is now optional rather than essential to survival. Instead of working our balls off earning as much money as we can then looking for something to spend it on wouldn't it be better to work out how much we really need then find the easiest legal way of earning it.
How much of the stuff we spend that hard earned cash on is really necessary. You can only eat so much without getting fat and you can only drive one car at a time. Recreation? Sex is free!
I'm mostly with Kendor. The French may appear lazy to us (though I think the Spaniards are worse - or is that better) but maybe they just have more sense.
PS: You'll never get seriously rich by working yourself into an early grave though you will die a bit better off. It's a matter of luck; being in the right place at the right time. If you happen to own a small record company and Mike Oldfield walks in with the Tubular Bells master tape you're b****y lucky!
I bet it goes back to a time when food was hard to come by. If you lived on old bones left behind by lions you would probably take home more than you could eat in case there were no more for the rest of the week. ("What's a week" I here some caveman ask.) Up here in Northern Europe those who hoarded the most food and firewood for the winter were the ones who survived.
This habit no doubt got us to the moon but a little common sense should tell us that it is now optional rather than essential to survival. Instead of working our balls off earning as much money as we can then looking for something to spend it on wouldn't it be better to work out how much we really need then find the easiest legal way of earning it.
How much of the stuff we spend that hard earned cash on is really necessary. You can only eat so much without getting fat and you can only drive one car at a time. Recreation? Sex is free!
I'm mostly with Kendor. The French may appear lazy to us (though I think the Spaniards are worse - or is that better) but maybe they just have more sense.
PS: You'll never get seriously rich by working yourself into an early grave though you will die a bit better off. It's a matter of luck; being in the right place at the right time. If you happen to own a small record company and Mike Oldfield walks in with the Tubular Bells master tape you're b****y lucky!
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