Why do we give up our power?

And why don't we take it back?

» We spend all week in production mode, so we have to rest on weekends to prepare ourselves for the next push, the next week.

» Isn’t it sad that we live in a world where we have all the technology needed for us to work less and have more time for leisure, yet we remain constrained to working 5 (or even 6) days a week, only to “rest” for a day or two?

» I see your point but there’s nothing we can do to change it. Besides, it’s a necessary part of being a member of society.

» Well, society = us. If we think we want to change things, we could.

» We can’t just turn up and change things. But I guess we could start with ourselves.

This was a conversation I had with a new acquaintance (can you guess which bits of the conversation came from me?) and two things stood out to me.

Society is how society is. There’s nothing we can do t…