by Complexity

I remember reading this short piece some time ago. Its critique of the 40 Hour Work Week discomfited me less than intended but only because I work longer by choice, and from obsession. The last two paragraphs...

The perfect customer is dissatisfied but hopeful, uninterested in serious personal development, highly habituated to the television, working full-time, earning a fair amount, indulging during their free time, and somehow just getting by.

...They’ve been working for decades to create millions of ideal consumers, and they have succeeded. Unless you’re a real anomaly, your lifestyle has already been designed.

... provoked a self-satisfied rejection of their assertion that, upon reflection, felt a little too reflexive to be entirely unjustified.

My gut feeling is that Hubski's population is at least at little anomalous. Are we?