Reply #1: It's hard to emulate 10 when you can't pay the fucking bills [View All]

[Selatius]

We are a people who suffer from poverty of time.

So much of our year is devoted to working for our employers. Most people I have seen barely get two weeks paid vacation. Others get even less. The point is we spend most if not all of our time working away our lives. In the industrialized world Americans spend more hours working than even the Japanese; we are--I believe--at the top as far as average hours worked in a year, yet our wages are decreasing in the face of inflation and fierce foreign competition in a rigged race to the bottom.

We work so damn hard for so little.

I'm getting this new notion shoved into my head that your life should revolve around your work, that it should be intertwined with work. I'm rejecting that. Your life is yours to live; it's not somebody else's, certainly not your employer who may or may not truly give a damn about your wellbeing.