Hard Work for Nothing

This is the year 2005 A.D. 5,000 years ago our ancestors began the "o'l nine-to-five" and we have continued every since. Why? Why must we work so hard?

So much progress has been made that has radically increased the standard of living, but has led to almost no decrease in the time spent working by all classes of society. This does not seem right. Surely we should be resting on our laurels. Surely we should all go into semi-retirement and slow progress so we can be lazy for a while. Why all this hard work?

But human society has developed around progress and striving for exellence. Unfortunately, it lookes like it'll stay that way. The major problem is that humans don't know what to do with free time. Even though we've become so intelligent and elightened, we just can't handle free time. That's why Rome collapsed. The slaves were doing all the work and the upper classes got lazy and pleasure seeking. Since humans can't control our base instincts, we have to work hard to prevent them from having the chance to appear.

So our standard of living will increase, but what good it the good life if you can't enjoy it?

Philosophy or die!