For most of recorded history, the question of what to do with human time was answered before it was asked. Survival consumed it. Crops needed planting, water needed hauling, children needed watching, walls needed mending. The question "what do you *want* to do?" was a luxury so rare it barely existed as a concept. Then, slowly, something changed. Not all at once. The change crept forward in fits and starts over centuries, and then it accelerated. Machines took the repetitive work. Energy becam
