You work long hours in an oppressive environment, spend ages stuck in trains, buses and cars, and for what? To crash on the sofa with only enough energy to dial a take-away and watch TV? The impact of this lifestyle on your physical and mental well-being, as well as your personal relationships, is stunting and dehumanising: why work so hard to buy yourself luxuries, when you are too tired and dispirited to enjoy them properly? In the rate race, only a rat can ...