When you achieve an understanding of your mortality, one unbridled by fantasies of eternity, paired with a realization that the universe and your life within it are not imbued with objective purpose, it becomes difficult to take seriously the lines drawn, systems developed, and rules made by humans dead and living. Lines of property, lines of borders, lines and systems of tribal belief, various systems of governance, and that all encompassing system of deciding who gets what; Who lives and who dies; Money. Rules set to see to it that the established systems remain, and that power held is never lost.

When it is realized that this life is all there is; these thoughts, dreams, perceptions, before an eternal dark, the systems by which we have collectively arbitrarily decided to live our lives by limit the time we are able to spend Living. Learning. Experiencing. Traveling. Generally enjoying existence.
These things are instead designated to the category of leisure and vacation. While the bulk of a persons life in the "developed world" is expected to consist of work. Work that, for the majority of occupations, could and likely will soon be automated. These tasks many define their lives by replaced by intelligent, machines with smaller margins of error than their human counterparts. One of the only reasons intelligent automation is not already commonplace is because we have built our societies in ways that depend on these system. We in large cannot fathom a world wherein ones life's value is not dictated by their work. The result of widespread automation in the world as it is would only lead to unemployment, starvation, poverty, and as tends to follow; death. Unless, at it's core, we change the way we measure life's worth, and our expectations of how we should spend our time.

Our time is limited, yet we have convinced ourselves and eachother that we should all have to do some repetitive task or another on a routine basis to earn the right to be alive. This is a falsehood that unless left behind will be our collective downfall.