Extremist capitalism will ultimately and inevitably turn us all into perpetual, indentured servants of its insatiable greed. And when it does, it will try to disguise this outcome as some accidental side effect - an unexpected consequence of macro level forces outside of its control - definitely not its intended objective.
In actual fact, the system is much smarter and much more efficient at exploiting us than we seem to give it credit for. Allowing us to rest, play, and generally enjoy our experience of human life is not in the system's interest - unless, in so doing, we are inadvertently serving it by consuming its entertainment goods and services. To the system, rest from production and consumption is frivolous and indulgent. Unless we are being productive towards advancing the system's ends, we have no validity in the eyes of the system. Produce, consume, produce, consume, produce, consume, ad nauseum.
The leisure society was just a bullshit lie - a trick to persuade us to hop on board the train and support the system's hidden agenda. Even the promises of reward are empty promises. Through various layers of indirection, ingeniously conceived instruments of financial chicanery, and deftly executed sleights of hand, the extremist capitalist system takes away everything that it pretends to give. And then we are left - exploited as efficiently as the other things we helped the system to exploit.
In the extremist capitalist system, there is no end in sight to servitude. Work until you die. Even the very disposal of your remains requires payment from you, for which you must work while you are alive. Is any of this worth it? Perhaps it's time to hop on board a different train - or, perhaps, to just sit it out on the station platform and watch the labor camp trains rush by.
Financial crisis adds pressure to keep working