Sometimes I can’t help thinking we in the west have gone just that little bit mad. We're determined to live our lives at a thousand miles an hour, each day a constant rush to get ahead, simply in order to buy even more shit we don’t really need. Stuck on a hamster-wheel, we/re trapped in the high-pressure jobs we need 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 still tempted 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 actually hiring staff, being way too knackered after all that overtime to bother
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