I'd like to suggest that such a life entails resistance, both personal and political, to the form of life forced upon us by capitalism. Any form of life that demands that you defer enjoyment to the future means that you risk wasting your life. The future in which you hope to really live may never come. It seems that one never deserves to be happy. One can always want more.
Capitalism is a form of life in which it is very hard to live fully in the present.
A life devoted to staying ahead of the bill collector or to the pursuit of more stuff is a life not really lived. So we defer the living in the present until the future arrives, as if we had forever to wait for it, as if we were immortal. Another way in which capitalism robs us of our lives is by shrinking time. This economic system runs faster and faster, which means that we do, too. Increased productivity means not only more time devoted to the consumption of the goods produced and more time devoted to the maintenance of those goods.