The Industrial Revolution and the Value of Efficiency

i like to think that i am not actually a slave to the clock. And i feel a little bit as if i am, because my meetings start usually on the hour and then go for 50 minutes or something. But but when that thing goes way, you are still, you still have to do the work. The industrial revolution put a great emphasis on ciency and the value of efficiency. In a way, it created this idea that our lives exist to run efficiently and to like, fill needs in market places. I sometimes wonder, does the market exist to make people better? Do people only exist to make the markets more efficient?