Happy New Year, btw.

So I'm mid-trawl of some websites, and I hit this comment on a message board:

The average worker today works more hours than an agrarian worker four hundred years ago. Who or what are we serving with our increased productivity and labor?

And it really, really struck home.  Especially with my current thoughts re: the day job.  Maybe it's time to seriously consider a more relaxing work schedule, and stop blowing the huge amounts of cash I end up spending on luxuries in order to de-stress myself...