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Over the last 100 years, humans' lifespan has only increased by ~5 years, if you lived to be a teenager.

Think of all the 'productivity' we've had in the past 100 years, that's +5 years when you're already old and finished.

Great. Can we do the math on how we've nearly blown ourselves up many times over, are destroying the environment, working 40+ hours/week and so on?

Worth it for everyone to be 'productive' for a collective increase of 1 or 2 years within your lifetime, assuming we don't destroy the planet or blow ourselves up?

You decide, keep your productivity if you wish, I'm going for a walk and enjoying my life :)



You read too far.

I included the assumption "sustainable productivity is desired".

You did not meet that condition, and should have stopped reading ;)




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