The Right to Life, Liberty — and Free Time | Danielle Roberts | TED · TED
Danielle Roberts在TED演讲中提出，自由时间不是奖励，而是公民的基本权利。她探讨了现代人因工作压力而失去生活乐趣的现象，并呼吁重新定义时间的价值，适合练习口语和听力。
So it's exciting and ironic that I'm giving a TED Talk about time in three minutes.
因此，既令人兴奋又颇具讽刺意味的是：我将在三分钟内进行一场关于“时间”的 TED 演讲。
But what's more ironic is the Founding Fathers promised us the pursuit of happiness.
但更具讽刺意味的是：美国的开国元勋们曾向我们承诺，人们可以追求幸福。
Not the guarantee of happiness, the pursuit, which I think of as having the freedom to choose how you spend your days,
这种追求并不能保证带来幸福；在我看来，幸福其实意味着拥有自由，可以自己决定如何度过每一天。
the space and focus to pursue a new passion or just the ability to be present with the people you love --
有足够的时间和精力去追求新的兴趣爱好，或者仅仅是能够陪伴在你所爱的人身边……
all of which require something that none of us has enough of:
所有这些都需要某种我们所有人都缺乏的东西……
time.
时间。
My dad laid tile for 40 years.
我父亲从事瓷砖铺设工作已经40年了。
Do you know what he got for his retirement?
你知道他退休时得到了什么吗？
Knee surgery.
膝关节手术。
And he told me, "I think I'm going to get another job to keep me busy."
然后他对我说：“我想我需要找一份新工作来让自己保持忙碌的状态。
Now if you’ve ever been out of work, you know how uncomfortable that feels.
如果你曾经失业过，你就会知道那种感觉有多难受。
Now imagine something that feels far worse than that.
现在，想象一下某种比那还要糟糕得多的情况吧。
Never having the time to truly live your life at all.
根本就没有时间去真正地享受生活。
We like to call this a time management problem, right?
我们通常会把这个问题称为“时间管理问题”，对吧？
But more Americans are working multiple jobs to survive than ever recorded before.
但现在，为了维持生计而同时从事多份工作的美国人数量比以往任何时候都要多。
How are you supposed to manage time that's not even yours to begin with?
你又该如何管理那些本来就不属于你的时间呢？
This goes far beyond a time management problem.
这远远超出了时间管理问题的范畴。
It's actually a civil rights issue.
这实际上是一个民权问题。
Can a democracy survive when its citizens no longer have the time to truly participate in it?
当一个国家的公民不再有时间真正参与民主进程时，这个民主制度还能继续存在吗？
And I’m not just talking about the hours -- I mean the pace.
我指的不仅仅是工作时间，而是工作节奏。
Moments of connection have been replaced by convenience.
人与人之间建立情感联系的时刻，已经被追求便利性所取代了。
We get everything delivered to our doors at record speed.
所有商品都以创纪录的速度被直接送到我们家门口。
We’ll rideshare to the airport rather than asking a neighbor.
我们会选择拼车去机场，而不是向邻居求助。
We put productivity on this pedestal to maximize the minutes that we do have access to.
我们将生产效率视为最重要的目标，目的是尽可能地利用我们现有的时间。
The last time we fought for more time and won was over a century ago, when workers marched and bled under a banner that said,
我们上次为争取更多时间而斗争并最终取得胜利，是在一个多世纪前。当时，工人们举着写着某些口号的旗帜，走上街头进行抗议；他们在斗争中付出了巨大的代价（甚至付出了生命的代价）。
"Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what you will."
八小时用于工作，八小时用于休息，另外八小时则可以自由支配。
I love that phrase, "what you will."
我喜欢那句话：“随你的便。
I think of letting the sun hit your face, flipping cars when your sports team wins, like we do here in Philly.
我喜欢那种让阳光洒在脸上的感觉；当自己的运动队获胜时，我会像我们在费城一样兴奋地做出一些“疯狂”的举动（比如掀翻汽车）。
Or doing absolutely nothing and not feeling guilty about it for once.
或者干脆什么都不做，而且这一次也不会因此感到内疚。
We cannot optimize the life out of our lives now betting on a later that isn't promised.
我们现在不能通过寄希望于某个尚未确定的未来时刻来“优化”自己的生活。
So I want to propose something new.
因此，我想提出一个全新的想法。
A time amendment.
一项关于时间调整的修正案。
And it's built on three results.
它是基于三个研究结果构建的。
First, that time is a civil right, and no one's access to it should be dictated by how much money they make or who they are.
首先，时间是一种公民权利；任何人使用时间的机会都不应受到其收入多少或身份地位的影响。
Second, that joy is proof a democracy is functioning the way that it was intended.
其次，这种喜悦证明了民主制度正在按照其设计初衷发挥作用。
During the AIDS crisis, Dan Savage said, "We buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon,
在艾滋病危机期间，丹·萨维奇曾说：“我们上午埋葬逝去的亲友，下午则走上街头进行抗议。
and we danced all night.
我们整晚都在跳舞。
The dance is what kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for."
正是这种舞蹈让我们坚持战斗下去——因为这正是我们为之奋斗的目标。
And third, rest is infrastructure, not a reward for a lifetime of hard work.
第三，休息其实是一种“基础设施”（即对人们健康和精力的保障），而不是对一生辛勤工作的奖励。
It gives us the capacity to imagine and participate in our shared future.
这使我们具备了想象并共同创造我们共同未来的能力。