There's 168 hours in a week (Monday-Sunday).
Let's say you work 40 hours a week over 5 days of the week, so 8 hours each day from Monday-Friday. You spend an hour getting ready each morning so that's 5 hours and then it takes you roughly an hour to get to and from work each day, another 5 hours. So right there you've got 50 hours wasted solely on work (and for some people this number would be even bigger depending on how many hours you work each week).
On those work nights (Sunday night-Thursday night) let's assume you average about 7 hours of sleep each night, there's 35 hours right there. Now let's add that onto our 50 hours from above, that's 85 hours.
There's half of your week gone right there!
You obviously still have to sleep on Friday and Saturday night but let's say you stayed up an hour later than you do on a work night, that's 12 hours wasted on sleep over those two nights. I don't know if that should be grouped with our hours accumulated above or not but the running total for wasted time now sits at 97 hours.
Let's say you spend 1 hour each night on cooking dinner, eating it and then cleaning up. 7 hours right there. Then let's say you spend about 3 hours each week tidying your house (unless you're a slob), let's say an hour on grocery shopping and let's assume even when you're off work that you'll spend roughly 5 hours doing other miscellaneous jobs that you'd rather not do along with the ones we've already mentioned. Right there we have a total of 16 hours, another 2/3 of a day wasted.
and our grand total comes to 113 hours! but for the sake of it let's round that up to a clean 5 days.
so, each week that you're working full time you will waste 5 days on insignificant garbage (and that's if you're lucky). That leaves us a total of 2 days per week to do with whatever we please (if there is anything you really enjoy doing, for me I have nothing that I enjoy doing).
That means that over the entire year (365 days) only 104 of those days actually matter.
The economy is in absolute shambles and presumably will stay that way moving forward, but let's assume that somehow you're able to retire after only 45 years of working full time. With the calculations we've done above that means that out of 16,425 days, a mere 4,680 of those actually matter. Just over 1/4 of your working life is going to be "enjoyable".
(approximately 13 years).
but hey, you're retired now! and let's say with advances in medicine over those 45 years and some good genetics you're going to live another 30 years! However, how much "living" will you actually be doing? You're well past your prime and at this age you'll start to experience a plethora of health issues. For the sake of this let's assume you're one of the luckier ones, for the first 10 years of your retirement you'll have 4 "good days" a week, that's 208 good days a year for a decade, which all up is 2,080 days. Now for the last 20 years of life let's say that you'll only have 2 of those "good days" a week, that's 2,080 days over the 2 decades. Add those two together and that means that over your 30 years of retirement, which is 10,950 days, only 4,160 of those will be enjoyable.
Now, it's time for the grand total.
Over 75 years of adult life (27,375 days) only 8,840 of those days will be enjoyable and worthwhile living (roughly 24 years) IF YOU'RE LUCKY! so essentially not even 1/3 of your adult life will be enjoyable.
TLDR: Life is a joke and were being scammed.
