Remember those predictions from the Nixon era that by now we’d all be working three or four hours each morning and playing golf in the afternoon while the robots made our living for us? What happened? Well, part of the story is that we chose money and stuff over time and freedom. We opted for a new 4K projector for movie night instead of “a life of unhurried serenity and peace and power.”25 Instead of spending money to get time, we opted for the reverse: we spend time to get money.
