If we practise economising actions then we have circumscribed their effect so as to manage ourselves in reference to it. We economise so economise ourselves, so we become through the actions that make us. We are consumers of life not the co-creators of it. Is the difference in human action the key to see ourselves otherwise than being the consumer we are taken for. Why have we turned life into business, why labour to secure time that is supplement. We discuss this and more