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11/28/2007: "The modern economy ("freedom") is indeed slavery"

Until the 20th century, few people needed money. Apart from salt and iron, everything could be paid for in kind. Economic activity was more a means of making the time pass than of making money, which might explain why one of the few winter industries in the Alps was clock-making. Tinkering with tiny mechanisms made time pass less slowly, and the clocks themselves proved that it was indeed passing.

[ Now we all work all the time and are stressed out, and not coincidentally, have less creative output. OMG who would have guessed? ]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/opinion/25robb.html