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...
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/1002903550I 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.
