Consumerism And the 9 to 5 Job

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Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:00am
How the 8-hour workday structures the way we live
"The culture of the eight-hour workday is big business’ most powerful tool for keeping people in this same dissatisfied state where the answer to every problem is to buy something," according to David Cain's blog post.  Clayton Morgareidge reads and adds further commentary.

This piece is an interesting companion piece to this CounterPunch article read on today's show by Tom Becker. Is it really enough to just "say no"?  
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