Modern industrialization has made it so that you have to earn your right to exist.
Our hunter gatherer ancestors did mostly gathering to survive, worked perhaps four hours a day and spent the rest of the time lounging around. Sure you didn't live as long but if you add up the hours spent soaking in the natural rhythms of nature you experience total consciousness free of concerns for time, unfettered with philosophical problems and contradictions that are the plight of the consumer culture that plagues man with anxiety that he/she will lose everything with one wrong move, out-casting them from what they assume are there peers.
Civilization created the problem that can never be fixed with endless consumption. You can buy, buy and buy and you will never fill the void left when we lost the ability to experience nature in the moment, when we were apart of nature, not set apart from it. Humans are scared to death of dying, nature has been turned into this horror show waiting to gobble you up, but the civilized alternative is standing around doing work that the ancients would have been embarrassed to see us doing.