J’s Reviews > Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals > Status Update

"When lockdown ended, Gambuto warned, corporations and governments would conspire to make us forget the possibilities we'd glimpsed, by means of shiny new products and services and distracting culture wars."

He was right. Why do you think I'm permanently shattered? Nothing gets better. 9/11. Trump. The Pandemic.

Burkeman keeps getting really close to realizing that capitalism is what keeps us going at this miserable pace.