Extreme commuters
April 25th, 2006 | Published in Consumerism, Culture, Technology
Newsweek has an article about “extreme commuters” who travel long distances to their job each day. Why do people subject themselves to this kind of life? They waste their lives (and their paycheck) in driving. The rest of their time they work at a job that they take little pleasure in. One man says he does it so he can live in a house in the country. But when does he get to spend time in it? Sleeping?
Thoreau calls this “spending of the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.” Is this where the “American dream” leads to?