With our own business, we certainly work a lot of hours — but there’s a difference between the hours we work and the hours lots of folks in the ‘regular’ world ‘work’.
In the regular world, it seems like ‘work’ includes regularly checking Facebook and Twitter...multiple personal calls in an hour...BS-ing with the cubicle-dweller across the way...extended lunches. In other words, precious little ‘work’ is actually done in all of those hours. When you are working for yourself, however, how much work you do determines how well you live, and if your business (and therefore you) will survive.
My father says that we reward the wrong things in this country. This is just another way that we reward poor work: by giving people something more to claim victim status on, when if the average worker was pinned on how much time they actually spend productively working, it’s not anywhere near even a standard 8 hour day.
We have become a nation of whiners and victims — and they’re all going to be voting for the guy who’ll give them free stuff and make them feel warm and fuzzy.
You’re right-
I own my own business and am online most of the day and it amazes me the amount of people using chat etc. popping in to say hello to me.
I always ask if they’re at work and 9 out of 10 times it’s a YES.
While I barely have time to discuss the weather with them, they will go on and on—
Did I check my email and see the funny pic they sent me? Why didn’t I answer their Facebook post they sent an hour ago to me?
It astounds me-when I worked for someone, I would have never done personal stuff unless I absolutely had to. Even owning my own business gives me little time for that while working.
Well, the article DID quote CBS news, so it must be true...and if people are being worked “to death”, maybe it’s Mother Nature’s way of getting rid of the dead wood.
Suzy
We could go to a piece work model. If you make ten widgets, you get paid for ten widgets, whether it took you an hour or a week. The problem with this model is that those who are clever will figure out a way to make 100 widgets in an hour (which on it's own is a good thing) but there may not be a demand for 100 widgets an hour. And even if you task the clever man to improving production of everything else in the plant, and you're able to lay off all the average and below average people, you still come up against lack of demand for all that improved production and clever man is twiddling his thumbs, or going off to work for the competition for more money.
In the meantime, nobody is buying Company As products anymore because their biggest customers were employed by Company B and they were laid off by the thousands. And they were laid off by the thousands because the former customers who used to buy Company B's goods were laid off by Company A.
There really is no fix for what is happening in this generation. Automation and AI, while creating some jobs for clever men, is rendering the vast multitude of humanity as useless, except as customers. But useless people don't have the money to make themselves useful even as consumers.
A lot of eaters need to die. People think Agenda 21 is a lefty commie program, but it's actually a lever in the bankster's NWO.
There is also a reward on the number of hours present, instead of the work produced. Someone who is in the office 50 hours is regarded more highly than someone who is there 40, even if the 40 hours per week results in more work done or higher quality.
‘In the regular world, it seems like ‘work’ includes regularly checking Facebook and Twitter...multiple personal calls in an hour...BS-ing with the cubicle-dweller across the way...extended lunches. In other words, precious little ‘work’ is actually done in all of those hours. When you are working for yourself, however, how much work you do determines how well you live, and if your business (and therefore you) will survive.’
I’ve had my own business for 4 years, my mother and father had their own businesses for 35 years or more and I worked in them, and I’ve worked for another company for 17 years. The same socializing occured in all settings. You’re doing too much chest thumping and feeling sorry for yourself.