Because, unless you are in some market niche, surviving got really complicated. > It is obsessed with striving, relentlessly positive, devoid of humor, and — o

Because, unless you are in some market niche, surviving got really complicated. > It is obsessed with striving, relentlessly positive, devoid of humor, and — once you notice it — impossible to escape. That's the world we build for ourselves. Let me quote a passage from Max Weber, in his book "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism": "The Puritan wanted to work in a calling; we are forced to do so. For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building the tremendous cosmos of the modern economic order. This order is now bound to the technical and economic conditions of machine production which to-day determine the lives of all the individuals who are born into this mechanism, not only those directly concerned with economic acquisition, with irresistible force." If others are stepping the game up, we have to step the game up too if we want to survive. Is this good or right?