Sometimes I can’t help thinking we in the west have gone just that little bit mad. We seem determined to live our lives at a thousand miles an hour, each day a constant rush to get ahead, simply to buy more shit we don’t really need. Stuck on the hamster-wheel, we find ourselves trapped in the kind of high-pressure jobs needed to somehow eek out enough to afford a house, the cost of which is, of course, astronomical. What’s more, in some insanity, the fortunate few are pressured to borrow way above their means for a home much grander than they actually deserve, forking out yet more in loans for fancy cars to park in the driveway. The truly delusional then end up hiring staff, realising they’re way too knackered working overtime to be bothered with
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