As far as I can tell no one was defending a “commerce-centric” worldview. Even in a world without work you still might want to wake up at a particular time. Maybe you slept late, maybe you need to wake up earlier than you naturally do, you might not have daylight to wake you, predisposed to sleeping loads, etc.
Defaulting to a commerce-centric worldview in this context means being completely mystified as to why anyone might not want to wake up to an alarm, and finding a society that puts human needs first ridiculous.
The reality is that centering our lives around buying and selling things at the expense of untold human misery is itself ridiculous. Unfortunately it’s also extremely prevalent.
As far as I can tell no one was defending a “commerce-centric” worldview. Even in a world without work you still might want to wake up at a particular time. Maybe you slept late, maybe you need to wake up earlier than you naturally do, you might not have daylight to wake you, predisposed to sleeping loads, etc.
Well, I used a different D word than ‘defending’.
Defaulting to a commerce-centric worldview in this context means being completely mystified as to why anyone might not want to wake up to an alarm, and finding a society that puts human needs first ridiculous.
The reality is that centering our lives around buying and selling things at the expense of untold human misery is itself ridiculous. Unfortunately it’s also extremely prevalent.