Deep down, I think we understand where our priorities should lie. When people are asked in surveys, they usually say they’d rather have time off than more money. Polls in Europe and North America repeatedly show people putting a higher value on leisure time than on stuff. In response, corporations have invested very heavily in changing our minds on that subject. As the writer J. R. Benjamin said, “One reason over a trillion dollars a year is spent on marketing in the USA is to try to undermine our natural tendency to want free, liberated time.”
