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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on July 05, 2012, 08:25:09 AM
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xchrom (77,704 posts)
Why We're Really Being Worked to Death
http://www.alternet.org/economy/156166/why_we%27re_really_being_worked_to_death_/
A column by Tim Kreider in The Sunday Times, “The ‘Busy’ Trap“, which addressed the modern scurry of work seems to have struck a chord with people. I’ve seen it passed around the web constantly over the last few days, almost always with an approving nod. It seems everyone can identify with the constant pull of work, which for most of us has extended its tentacles beyond 5pm and now dictates much of our lives. I check my email in bed on my phone the moment I wake up. Kreider is a colleague in that he used to draw a great alt-weekly political strip and now mostly writes. When I first started reading the column, I wanted to be on board – balancing work and life is such a huge struggle for me. But there are omissions in Kredier’s diagnosis that are screaming to be addressed.
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I have to stop you here because I want you to read this next portion of this retard's self-pitying tripe.
It really must be seen to be believed and that is why I'm taking extra efforts to draw your attention to it.
It's stunning, not only in the depth of it's self-aggrandizement but also it's total lack of self-examination.
He really thinks he should be pited...
...by other people!
So, read on, gentle people, and behold the face of liberalism.
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I could identify some of myself in the essay. I routinely work over 60 hours a week, 52 weeks a year (I am self-employed with no health insurance or vacation time) and commonly blow off friends for work. A few romantic relationships have been thrown under the bus as I’ve pursued a career in the dying field of editorial cartooning, with only the smallest pang of regret. It’s a chosen path, you could say, but working less isn’t; I simply don’t make enough money to do anything but...
And there is where I stopped reading.
I met many a single mother working and going to school while working as a waitress at restaurants such as Denny's. They had health insurance and time off and romantic relationships.
That the OP doesn't leave the soul-rending world of editorial cartooning for the apparently more lucrative world of 3rd shift food server is a chosen path...you could say.
Let's see if the comments improve this steamer...
KG (22,532 posts)
1. we live in a nation of sheep. we do and believe whatever we're told.
Aparently you believe the OP is worth pitying...
...just as EWE were told.
Sherman A1 (9,040 posts)
2. Precisely
The 1% have done a marvelous job of hoarding the gains of our productivity increases and thereby pitting us against each other for the remaining scraps, so we do more and more with less and less, just to try to get by.
RKP5637 (19,747 posts)
3. Yep, raised from birth to be sheep! And many to vote to maintain their
sheep status, such good little lemmings are many Americans, bred like farm animals to be part of the herd.
Locrian (1,629 posts)
4. not just sheep
But sheep that defend their masters and believe they are part of the upper class all the while they are bent over.
You guys don't strike me as sheep.
You're more like pigs...
(http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/animal-farm-pigs-halas-batchelor.jpg)
And the final word goes to Omaha Bleat who thinks he works too much or something..
Omaha Steve (32,312 posts)
13. K&R!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002903550
I guess we won't have to worry too much about a Marxist revolution.
Revolutions require military action and military action requires sustained, strenuous physical activity.
Apparently these ass hats think being a cartoonist is too rigorous to be endured.
Make of that what you will.
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Matt Bors must not be a very good editorial cartoonist. I've never heard of him.
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DUmmies always get it bassackwards...they're overpaid and underworked.
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Matt Bors must not be a very good editorial cartoonist. I've never heard of him.
I may have, but who knows. I think the internet is helping to kill off political cartoonists, at least those who try to make it their sole source of income. There lots of good and great unknown political cartoonists that give their work away for free online.
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How in the hell does he fill up 60 hours a week, 52 weeks per year on political cartooning???
Also, if he's throwing away friends and girlfriends in the name of doodling, he deserves to be a lonely douchebag.
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How in the hell does he fill up 60 hours a week, 52 weeks per year on political cartooning???
Also, if he's throwing away friends and girlfriends in the name of doodling, he deserves to be a lonely douchebag.
Out of the mouth of babes...
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:naughty: You calling me a babe?
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I think I remember reading that cartooning is one of those "hazardous" occupations (like hairdresser) in France where they get to retire at 50. If it isn't, it should be.
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How in the hell does he fill up 60 hours a week, 52 weeks per year on political cartooning???
Also, if he's throwing away friends and girlfriends in the name of doodling, he deserves to be a lonely douchebag.
Capitalism: The man Pays.
Dutch: You split expenses.
Socialist: The woman pays.
Now you know why he has no friends or girlfriends.
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Sissy. There are a lot of jobs that have the same if not worse working conditions and you whine about yours. Get back to us when your job involves getting shot at and getting blown up by crazy people.
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Sissy. There are a lot of jobs that have the same if not worse working conditions and you whine about yours. Get back to us when your job involves getting shot at and getting blown up by crazy people.
Not too mention the asshole is sitting in air conditioned comfort in the summer and good heating in the winter.
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Not too mention the asshole is sitting in air conditioned comfort in the summer and good heating in the winter.
You assume too much. It's a DUmmie, it could be living in a 63 subaru station wagon.
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You assume too much. It's a DUmmie, it could be living in a 63 subaru station wagon.
Those would still be better conditions than the soldiers and Marines in Afghanistan have to endure.
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Those would still be better conditions than the soldiers and Marines in Afghanistan have to endure.
Goes without saying.
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How do you rack up 60 hours a week cartooning? I call bull on this bouncy.
Let me translate this for you. xchrom works free lance at one of the liberal rags published weekly for free in big cities. They're paid for with strip clubs ads. All the articles are extremist lib slant, and he gets $5 bucks for ONE toon a week.
The rest of his time he mows lawns for money and smokes weed. He'd like to sell drugs but the dealers don't trust him at all. He is 30 something, unwashed most of the time. lives in mom's basement. and only really fit in with the last occupier crowd. xchrom would love to get on the disability band wagon, but doesn't have a real job to get injured on.
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How do you rack up 60 hours a week cartooning? I call bull on this bouncy.
Let me translate this for you. xchrom works free lance at one of the liberal rags published weekly for free in big cities. They're paid for with strip clubs ads. All the articles are extremist lib slant, and he gets $5 bucks for ONE toon a week.
The rest of his time he mows lawns for money and smokes weed. He'd like to sell drugs but the dealers don't trust him at all. He is 30 something, unwashed most of the time. lives in mom's basement. and only really fit in with the last occupier crowd. xchrom would love to get on the disability band wagon, but doesn't have a real job to get injured on.
Cartoon related injuries are rampant. Never heard of Wiley Coyote.
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Locrian (1,629 posts)
4. not just sheep
But sheep that defend their masters and believe they are part of the upper class all the while they are bent over.
You are an idiot
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You are an idiot
BEG, why are you always beating around the bush?
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Cartoon related injuries are rampant. Never heard of Wiley Coyote.
H5 :-)
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:naughty: You calling me a babe?
Absolutely !
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Absolutely !
She is, isn't she?!?
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She is, isn't she?!?
All the ladies here are !
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All the ladies here are !
Very true!!
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Very true!!
Yup! :blowkiss: Should go without saying.
(The :blowkiss: was directed at them. :tongue: )