[nnq]

...is everybody really that obsessed about working more, learning more, doing more and wants to drive this onto our children too?! wtf?! why can't we use technology in ways that allow us to work LESS, to do LESS, to have more of "free time" for both us and our children?

paraphrasing a late wise man: the little buggers should have MORE time to just play with a stick in the mud! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6wOt2iXdc4)

what about "FREE TIME"? children especially should have MORE of it, not less. and maybe this way, we, the adults would finally understand the cruelty of having less then 2 months vacation a year! I know, it's America, where everything is overdone, but for fuck's sake, don't do this to your children too (...'cause afterwards everyone else will take your example)!

[genwin]

> ... maybe this way, we, the adults would finally understand the cruelty of having less then 2 months vacation a year!

But then how are we going to compete with the Chinese?! How will the children survive when they're competing with 15 billion other people in the world (and more people is always better)? Or let's skip to the real point: how will they make rich people as richer?

[JacksonGariety]

Those are the words of a man who works on that which he does not also love.