I've been thinking about this a lot lately. How is it that so many people work so hard and are still struggling to pay rent? This is definitely one of the factors I have come to. While I certainly wouldn't make the same arguments as the article, I feel like so many people devote so much time to work that doesn't really improve people's quality of life.

The amount of time and energy spent on advertising, clickbait garbage, video games, sports (specifically broadcasting, discussing, writing, etc.), drugs, gambling, cosmetics, television, and other pointless time wasting technologies is truly staggering. Sure, people enjoy many of the things I've listed, but we have certainly reached the point of diminishing returns on investment in these things. The sheer amount of infrastructure these things have created to essentially take money away from people while providing nearly no social benefit is mind boggling. People can enjoy baseball or football without billion dollar industries being built around them and the same is true with video games or television/theater/movies (just think what could be done with the average budget of a blockbuster film).