When did we start working for other people and not for our own survival. Its a depressing thought that we have to work all our lives to make money so we can pay landlords, water bills and taxes. Before that we used to work for ourselves, we went out and hunted or harvested all that we need for ourselves and our families. But somehow other people have set up the game so that other people work for them so they can have more than they need. If I was hunting or gathering my own supplies it would not seem depressing because I would be doing it for myself, I would just see it as part of being alive. It seems unnatural that we have created a society where labor is divided and diverted to making a few people have more than they can consume. While everyone else has to work for somebody else so that they're supplies for living are netted out as those few seem fit. This started when society started coming together and broke away from the Hunter gatherer groups and came together to form agricultural societies. But maybe our genes have not evolved with agricultural and industrial societies and that's why there's so much angst about work life. Its not natural to us as human beings.
Maybe we humans do not cope well with living together with thousands of each other side by side, we need space. But sitting down in a a cubicle typing away at a computer is not what the human body evolved along side with. That's why we are so sick, our bodies are built to roam.
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