Electric Can Opener/Spending Time Saving Time
by dbdevilliers
I have an electric can
opener
and it opens cans quickly,
saving some seconds
per can opened—
seconds I would’ve lost
had I opened the can
with a manual
can opener.
I travel by airliner
whenever possible because
five hundred and twenty-five
miles per hour is faster
than walking
but when I can’t fly,
I take interstate
highways because
they’re more efficient than
small roads,
so I save time.
I wait for convenient
spots in
parking lots
to become available,
so I spend less time
walking to and from my car,
and I have more time to spend
waiting for convenient parking
spots to open up.
I wait for the elevator
instead of taking the stairs
so that way I can spend
the time I would’ve
spent taking the stairs
waiting for the elevator
so that way I can save the time
I would’ve spent taking
the stairs.
I don’t know what
I’ll do with all of
this time I’m saving,
but hopefully I won’t have
to spend too much time
doing it.
D. B. DEVILLIERS 
Okay, so buying things (we’ll call the shit we buy luxuries), do save us time, and that’s the whole point, because if we have more time to do something like write longer or spend more time with our kids, than that transferred time becomes more productive, instead of like, manually opening a can or walking into town to get ice for the ice box every other day. Luxuries, or any other sort of technology, help us get things done quicker and push progress along faster.
But what about self-sustainability? Or being agrarian? Or fixing the coffee-pot when it’s broken? Or being a minimalist? They’re all counters to the rat-race driving the consumerism driving our progress.
It’s not horrible to slow down the pace of progress. Thanks for your post.
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