The main components of human nourishment are food, love and information Nourishing and being nourished is the single biggest activity humans undertake in their lifetime. Amazingly, this important activity does not show up in accounting, nor significantly in economics. Even governments don't realize it's the most important task. But this task makes us what we are.
Humans are the animals with the longest nourishing time.
This investment of time into nourishment evolved us from animals to humans. Reducing this time, just to take part in a destructive 'rat race', very likely devolves us back into ferocious animals with superbrains, destined for violent combat and extinction. Expanding time for nourishment will evolve us into superior humans assuring our survival. Spending more time nourishing our environment will result in increasingly pleasant surroundings for us. But commerce says, such an activity is not beneficial.