Who is this for, besides the author? If you want to write sermons, write sermons. If you want to address people’s concerns with the way their time is obliged in 2024, you must address the impositions made by the labor market on employees that, more frequently than not, extend beyond the workday. Some fortunate souls have jobs that afford them equal agency to the creative pursuits the author derides, but the norm is the opposite. It’s hard to find the small joys within “chop wood, carry water” after a ten-hour day deferring one’s agency to the workplace & two hours commute. The suggestion that hypothetical dishwashing robots would shred the fabric of community seems misplaced at best.