This is the consequence of production being oriented towards people who are not the producers. In previous economic systems, what you produced was yours and the

This is the consequence of production being oriented towards people who are not the producers. In previous economic systems, what you produced was yours and the more you produced in a given interval, the fewer hours you had to put in to reach subsistence. In our mode of production, incentives are geared towards producing more and more with less and less with no natural endpoint.