That’s what life’s about isn’t it? This article asks some very interesting questions about our modern technological society:

Stock-market capitalism is today’s coin of the realm, consumerism its handmaiden, and technology is the great enabler. You think technology benefits you because it gives you an easier row to hoe? Bollocks. The ease it provides is illusory. It has trapped you, made you a slave to things you don’t even need but suddenly can’t live without. So you rot in a cubicle trying to get the money to get the stuff, when you should be out walking in a meadow or wooing a lover or writing a song.

I don’t necessarily think that technology is all evil and that we would be better off without it. However, as the quote above says, we need to remember what life is truly about. Technology allows us to be free of some of the mundane matters of everyday life, but it doesn’t mean that we should consume our lives with work, money, and consuming. As any spiritual tradition will teach you; money doesn’t bring happiness.