Happiness is not to have more, but to be more.
— Yves Cochet, French Minister of Environment (1991 – 2001)
http://www.workersoftheworldrelax.org/index.php
An interesting concept; less hours worked and more leisure time will help to lower resource consumption and improve the environment. Better technology, more efficiency, higher production actually leads to more environmental destruction, not less. This is referred to as the Jevons Paradox.
but will it? In our recession-prone world, no industry seems untouched, but the most worrying is the increase in part-time, contractual and seasonal jobs, our willingness to let somebody else provide for us — we’ve become nations of children, following direction, working ourselves into the grave and watching a handful of out-of-control financial whizzes, whom we are told we should admire because of their wealth, ruin our hopes and dreams.
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