If you didn’t need sleep, what would you do with all the extra time?

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What would I do with the extra time if I didn’t have to sleep? I barely sleep as it is, so things wouldn’t be that different. I think I would still want to sleep if I didn’t need sleep which is again very similar to how things already are. I don’t sleep very much, but I wish I did so… same difference?

It’s not very realistic that if sleep weren’t needed the time we currently use sleeping would suddenly become personal time. If it did I would spend it with my wife and I would probably just watch more TV or surf the web more. If I were smart I’d play more guitar or work on creative projects or work around the house or do more different things with Jen rather than flake on the couch. Things like that.

Let’s be honest though, if we didn’t have to sleep our late stage capitalist society that is driven by greed and avarice would dictate to us that all of that free time would be spent at work. Our eight hour day would be a 16 hour day and there would be nothing we could do about it. We’d make the same wage or salary that we make in our 40 hour week, we’d just have to work 80 hours a week to earn it. In other words, if we had all of that extra time available it would be exploited. Every last second of it.

Name your top three pet peeves.

Daily writing prompt

Just three pet peeves? I hope I can narrow it down, there are so many.

• Fascists, fascist sympathizers, fascist collaborators. You know, anyone who is even the slightest degree of pro-nazi. Disgusting. Un-American. Just plain evil. They are my number one pet peeve.
• People who turn a blind eye to abuse. I’m thinking specifically of the sex abuse scandal in the Boston archdiocese story that broke about 20 years ago. Catholic priests were raping children and when they were caught by their superiors they were not thrown in jail to rot for their evil crimes. Instead, they were reassigned to new towns so that they could rape a fresh batch of kids. After fascism, that is pretty much the most evil thing that I have ever heard of. I’m sitting here getting royally pissed off just thinking about it.
• People who pronounce nuclear, “nucular”. The sound of it makes my skin crawl. I mean, nu-clear. It’s not a hard word to work out. Say it right or shut the fuck up. Damn.

There. Those are pretty much my top three pet peeves. I wonder, did I catch the spirit of today’s question? I think so.