Aptly said.Leventis wrote:I believe that most of the times they work too much. Yes they try to sustain the family and on but they end up losing the point and not being able to meet the treasures that children have.
I think we are working too many hours in general, but that for certain people 10 hours of work a day are not much if those 10 hours are spent doing work with a higher purpose. From my personal experience, it is possible to have much energy at the end of the day after having worked for 8 hours + 2 hours on average to go to and get back from work, if you have positive thoughts all through the day and are happy about what you are doing -- something that seldom happens on a normal job, because almost all companies, and all the large ones, are concerned only about maximum profit, not the happiness of the employees. I say the last sentence again.Leventis wrote:When they come from work of course they feel exhausted.. It is natural.. you can't spend so much time working and then have power to do anything else....
Some time I ago, I did some simple maths based on the following passage from the chapter "The First Man on Earth":
Our week has 168 hours, and on average, and required by law, we work 40 hours per week. Then:'All of this occurred, in spite of all the warnings they had received. It should be said that before this almost total decimation, both the black race and the yellow race had attained a very high level of technological advance. The people lived in great comfort. They worked in factories, private and government enterprises, offices -- just as happens now on your planet.'
'They had a strong devotion to money which, to some, meant power and to others, wiser, it meant well-being. They worked an average 12 hours per week. On Bakaratini a week comprises six days of 21 hours each. They tended to the material rather than the spiritual side of their existence. At the same time, they allowed themselves to be duped and led in circles by a structure of politicians and bureaucrats, exactly as is happening now on Earth. Leaders fool the masses with empty words and, motivated by greed and pride, they 'lead' entire nations towards their downfall.'
40 / 168 = 23.8%
12 / 126 = 9.5%
The good thing is that from those unitless percentages we can find out that we work 23.8 divided by 9.4 = 2.5 times more than the Bakaratinians did, yet they managed to live in at least the same comfort despite being materialistic. We've screwed up big time on Earth then, friends, big time... Someone up there that we've elected, or so it seems, is living too well at our expense because most of us have been conditioned that life is naturally hard and that one must work so much as not to even start considering things apart from mere material existence, not to mention taking Michel's book seriously. I think that the inclusion of those numbers in the book has one reason: to enlighten us that we can spend considerably less time tending to our material existence, and yet enjoying no less than what we currently enjoy. An important thinly veiled lesson in the book!