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Re:Once You Try a Four-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back by JackSlateur on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @05:18AM (#41912560)
Yes

Pascal, in his "Pensées" book, wrote about this: humans keep getting busy, because otherwise they would understand how pointless their existence and suffering and reality is.

And so, in order to avoid the inner void that lurk behind everyone's mind, we run, we act, we play and we do thing, because even the useless is better than the nothing.

Re:Once You Try a Four-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back by nntwozz on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @04:56PM (#41918601)
Is there a direct quote of this? I find it amazing.