We blame ourselves, our boss, the mortgage, the government, the school system. But it’s not really their fault. It’s the modern deal, that we all signed up for on the day we were born. In the premodern world, people were akin to lowly clerks in a socialist bureaucracy. They punched their cards and then waited for somebody else to do something. In the modern world we humans run the business, so we are under constant pressure day and night.
