Are You Winning Your Time?

Frida Ghitis: Simone Vay writes about how this feeling of being a means to an end slowly creeps in and embeds itself into her psyche. She says, the fear of unemployment terrorizes people into accepting this degraded status where you start to see yourself as just a Means to an end for some other distant person's economic goals for the quarter. Ghitis: The biggest thing these factories are producing is what she calls affliction. A state of spiritual malaise and hopelessness that people come to accept that they have to live in every day.