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What Happens When "The Workers" Just Don't Care Anymore?
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,
One of the big problems in America today is that a lot of people simply do not seem to care about what they are doing anymore. The level of sloth, laziness and apathy that we are witnessing in this country is absolutely mind-numbing. Of course this is not true of everyone. There are still many Americans that are extremely hard working. But overall, it really appears that people are not taking as much pride in their work as they once did. Some of the examples that I am about to show you are quite funny. Others are more than just a little bit disturbing. But they all have a common theme. Americans from all walks of life are simply giving up. Whether they are teachers, delivery people or fast food workers, the truth is that there are a whole lot of people out there that seem to have mentally checked out.
For example, take a close look at the midterm exam posted below. Does anything stand out to you?...
If you can't read the writing in the red box, this is what it says...
"In all honesty, I am already bored with this topic. It is far less interesting than I had hoped and I really don't want to finish this essay. I'm fairly sure you don't really read these so I'm just going to put enough words down to make it seem like I wrote a lot while I kill time. Wanna hear some words that rhyme with time?
Crime, dime, mime, (haha mimes are funny), chime, lime. Aw dude you know what has lime in it? Sprite, it like lemon lime. I could really go for one of those about now, but not sierra mist, that just isn't the same. It tries too hard to be sprite but it just cant pull it off. It should just try to be itself and stop trying to measure up to other sodas."
To be fair, there is a tremendous amount of debate about this photo on the Internet. Some people insist that no teacher would ever be so careless and that this picture must have been photoshopped. Others that have studied this photo insist that there is no sign of alteration and that it is 100% authentic.
I will let you come to your own conclusion.
What is undeniable, on the other hand, is that there are a lot of delivery people out there that simply do not seem to care anymore.
For example, in the YouTube video that I have posted below, you can watch a postal worker drive her truck on to someone's lawn. She is so lazy that she doesn't even have the energy to take a few steps and place the package at the customer's door...
And in this next YouTube video, another postal worker does not even get out of his truck. He just carelessly tosses a package (which could contain something very expensive) toward the customer's home...
What would cause someone to act like that?
What has caused so many Americans to no longer take any pride in their work?
Another place where this can be seen frequently is at fast food restaurants.
For instance, the photo that I have posted below of a Wendy's employee gulping down soft serve ice cream with his mouth under the Frosty dispenser went viral on the Internet a while back...
I don't know about you, but to me that is absolutely disgusting. Needless to say, that worker quickly lost his job.
And of course there is no shortage of other fast food horror stories out there.
The following is one of my favorite examples...
Tony Hill, a pastor in Baltimore, Maryland, once got a deep-fried mouse along with his chicken at Popeye's. The old "I found a rat in my fried chicken!" urban legend is decades old - this particular story was given a little credence, however, by the fact that local health authorities confirmed that the Popeye's in question had a rodent problem.
These days even the criminals are getting lazy.
The following story is very tragic. Violent crime in America is on the rise, and as the economy continues to get worse people are going to steal just about anything that is not bolted down.
In the little town of Denison, Iowa, a couple of thugs recently shot and killed an elderly couple while they were attempting to steal some scrap metal...
A Denison man told investigators that he and another man shot two people, then set fire to a trailer with the victims inside, according to court documents.
Jayden Chapman said he and Michael D. Schenk shot Marvin Huelsing, 80, and Alice Huisenga, 81, on Monday, according to a criminal complaint and affidavit filed in Crawford County District Court.
This is the kind of thing that we are going to see a lot more frequently in the years ahead.
Those thugs thought that they would get away with murder by burning the victims inside their own trailer, but they foolishly left behind a receipt from the Wal-Mart where they had just been shopping at the scene of the crime...
A pickup truck more than 200 yards north of the trailer also was burned. Near it, investigators found on the ground a receipt from the Denison Walmart with a debit-card number from a food-stamp card. Authorities determined the card was assigned to Schenck.
In this case, justice was served by the slothfulness of the American people, and I hope that those murderers are given the highest penalty allowed by law.
But in general, slothfulness is a terrible thing. And it isn't just a few people that are being slothful. This is a national disease. I like how Jim Quinn put it in his recent article...
The government controlled public education system has flourished beyond all expectations of your owners. We’ve become a nation of techno-narcissistic, math challenged, reality TV distracted, welfare entitled, materialistic, gluttonous, indebted consumers of Chinese slave labor produced crap.
But even though so many of us are aware of what is happening to us, we just can't seem to break out of it as a nation.
It really does seem like most people are walking around in a fog these days.
Maybe the fact that 70 million Americans are on mind-altering drugs has something to do with it.
I don't know.
But unless Americans start taking more pride in their work again and start living their lives with meaning and purpose, it is going to be very difficult to envision a positive future for this country.
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+1 for Roger Miller reference!!! When you could sing along cuz the lyrics were enunciated!!!! No screamo back then.....
btw, I like Costco for large, returnable items.
Middle Americans who should and will be in the next big MIC war for $400, Alex.
These people were never meant to be born, and as a result, we're never raised with a family structure.
Callous, yes. The .gov will keep these wars going on as long as "support put troops" keeps living on.
Until then, watch HLN and reading the USAToday.
Which is why we need more marijuana growers rather than manufacturing to bring back a 'stash ethic' not a 'work ethic'......
"... what's the difference between ignorance and ambivalence?
I don't know and I don't care."
145 (and counting) are evidently - like Ass***e - too ignorant to see that the use of the word ambivalence in the above mis-quoted epigram is incorrect and nonsensical.
Apathy is the proper word, genius.
"But unless Americans start taking more pride in their work again and start living their lives with meaning and purpose, it is going to be very difficult to envision a positive future for this country."
You should teach pride and motivation to people who have lost good paying jobs and have now become Walmart 'greeters'... on the other hand however you have got the future of this country pretty much figured out.
Really, hopeless slaves are not known for being productive. I can't imagine why anyone is surprised.
The fault is not the business owner. The fault lies with the person in the mirror.
Each of us is responsible for ourselves. The lack of personal responsibility is the root cause. I believe the concept of personal responsibility has been destroyed by the statists who want people to believe they are owed something. When people believe they are owed something, government can then be the provider; thus cementing the power of those in government.
Personal responsibility is the antithesis of government dependence.
Quite sickening as to how the television has become the mirror.
Thankfully, I was raised without such poison.
You don't get it, do you? This is symptomic of disease and well beyond mere character failure.
And the name of the disease is government.
The cure is as little participation in it, as much as possible- and taking personal responsibility.
Indeed! +100.
Both of you are correct. The trick is how not to be a slave in today's world.
Step 1. Work with people you respect.
Not working means everyone loses.
+100
Battin' 100 MeatTrapper!
He was batting 1000...not 100. Batting 100 means just one out of ten hits.
Thanks for the correction- it was a very important one.
Long typos.
/s
http://www.nowandfutures.com/taxes.html
Total tax percentage potentially paid by the above average US citizen, 2005 - 54.4%
Total tax percentage potentially paid by the above average US citizen, 2013 est. - 59.7%Then when we tack on "Fees" we all pay it's not rocket science as to the why without pride and motivation.
Recently bought an Aqualarm made in Chula Vista CA for my boat from local agent in Cairns Oz, worked fine for three hours then died, was eventually replaced with a new unit which only works when you rattle it to get the sliding magnet to return to the alarm position...crap gear and for what it is, not cheap.
You don't need that crap. Just drill a 1" hole in the side of your boat a few inches up from the waterline. If the boat starts to take on water, it will just run out the hole.
Just drill a hole in the bottom of the boat, all the water will just run out. You are unsinkable then!!
Make sure you bring all of your Gold.
I talked to a walmart greeter a couple of weeks ago. He's a retired engineer. Doesn't need the money but wanted to do something to keep busy. No one who has been on food stamps most of their life would do the walmart greeter job. If they work at walmart they are in the back unloading the trucks and a lot of stuff finds it way into their personal car.
Now, that is where you are wrong...nothing goes missing at wally world. They are experts at logistics. They can track the number of fruit flies in a case of tomatoes from Mexico....you want to solve the immigration problem, plut walmart in charge.
If you want to solve the illegal immigrant problem just set up immigration courts inside a Wal Mart and you will be deporting about half of their customers.
Wal Mart makes their numbers off WIC, EBT and illegals on WIC and EBT.
Obama is helping that with racial hiring quotas for black people!
Why try at all?
www.chimpout.com
armed conflict is inevitable.
prepare yourself
The fabric or veil which holds a Society together is fragile. We are witnessing the fall of the EVIL EMPIRE.
Lets face it - We're pretty far removed from the likes of the greatest generation that beat back the depression and the third Reich. For any of us who grew up in the 50's & 60's you know what I'm talking about.
The Third Reich was only to be replaced by America. Go American Fascism. Woowho!
Crediting the greatest generation of voluntary fodder is brilliant ! NOT.
Give the Normalcy Biased "Greatest Submissive Generation" credit also for raising the
"Greediest Conformist Generation" da BOOMERS.
This is how you walk down the road less traveled, instead of following the herd, sheepster.
"We're pretty far removed" Me thinks not.
YOU're identicle, as the direction you are shown to take is lapped up like a dog.
'beat back the depression'
at least they owned land. sure, there was the dust bowl, but america was yet mostly rural land owners.
now this modern-day depression is happening in big apartment complexes, coast to coast.
Yikes! I regret clicking on that link. Jesus Christ, moron, why didn't you just get the domain "Ihateniggers.com"
Ha!
I was gonna write 'ha ha', but that would be, well, you know......
When countries, communities, families, marriages, frienships are all broken down it's not surprising that folks aren't able to go to work and hit the 'care' button as they enter thru the door.
Who needs family when you have welfare and a legal system that awards the spouse 50% of all property and future earnings. Men, community and hard work are disposable. Why care when the safety net of government, otherwise known as welfare, is ready and willing to take care of you until the whole system crumbles. Look at how helpless the Katrina victims were. Without government those people did not know what to do with themselves.
Hell, even the presidency is an affirmative action job.
The term paper shown in the article is Obama's doctoral thesis from the lost Columbia Papers.
More like Doctoral Feces!
Well not all of us are union USPS or UAW scum or O voters. The other day I had to wait in line for at least 15 minutes while a fat young white woman has $200+ in groceries. She pulls out endless coupons. The check out lady had to practically audit these coupons because 40% were not taking.
Then she asks credit or debit. The shopper whispers EBT and WIC. Both! Well the govt cards were all F'ed Up and were not working.
So another 5 or more minutes are wasted and I left the line as the self check out had cleared. I felt bad for the older checkout lady who probably deals with this shit 20 times a day.
People don't care anymore because there are no laws except for people who are responsible. We are taxed to death to pay for moochers, criminals, illegal aliens and criminal politicians plus tax breaks for billionaires like Buffett.
Spot on Freddie. We may disagree about the value of Barrons, but your observation above is one we see by the millions every day.
It sickens me what .gov has done to our country and population. Two weeks ago, the granddaughter of an elderly deceased couple from next door came to my parents house to 'mooch' money for gas. Not knowing that I have a weekend house just down the street, these same 'moochers' came for a visit today to 'mooch' money for gas. I gave them a gallon of gas and asked when I would get it returned. Hope that is the last I see of them.....what is sad. The elderly couple were golden folks and worked very hard for the little they had...plus they never mooched.
This is your .gov and you society that has pushed these people to do this....next up, the granddaugher will be running with a group and stealing, then having babies and 'mooching' on the system even more.
Pony up folks (not the ZH crowd), this is obviously what you wanted because you have voted for it.
That is a sad story. If they come back - tell em to get a job. Stay in touch with your parents about this. Who knows what these creeps might do.
I am working on growing more food because every visit to the grocery store is soul destroying. Aldi is better because their store brands are cheaper. The Free Shit Army want the premium brands sold a regular grocery stores. Might as well get Bryers Ice Cream if the taxpayers are paying for it.
They should at least make them go through one line so the people who actually pay with their own money are not inconvenienced by their WIC and EBT cards being tapped out.
It's just a bunch of anecdotes anyway
Ahh the wet stage of empire , lazy, dumb and beautiful
fuck it.
I think I've seen a T-Shirt ad for that..
Somewhere.
West to East Gold Exodus In Full Swing
http://www.ingoldwetrust.ch/west-to-east-gold-exodus-in-full-swing
I'm too lazy to buy stocks.
Whaddya mean "WHEN"?
it used to be a big deal to ( Catch a Mistake ) in business or manufacturing, now a days, mistakes happen all day long, catching them is your job. full time and you worry about all the ones you are not catching and nobody cares about
It is called Sovietization for lack of a better term. When you just don't give a fuck because you know you don't matter and there is nothing you can do about it.
"They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work." Old Soviet saying.
Can we haz cheezburger now?
New American reality:
Federal workers don't realize they are on welfare and people on welfare think it's their job.
+1 million
@Assfire....brilliant lateral thinking there....well played.
This is just a microcosm of the whole charater devolution of the people.
It is also the inspiration for The Honest Labor Amendment.
FutureJim - sounds good to me
This. It isn't the schools; we've always had losers. The problem is that fewer and fewer kids think they even have a chance to turn out to be winners, no matter how hard they work. Who wants to put their heart and soul into anything when the best they can do is make Shift Supervisor, and barely afford a crappy life? At that point, might as well toss it in and just be a goof. At least you can enjoy yourself some of the time, rather than become embittered. The median household income (2 workers) is right around $50k. That means daycare for the kids, at $200/wk. per kid. In other words, work as hard as you can just to tread water.
America's elites hate work so much they've demeaned it, devalued it, and made it worthless for most people. Anybody who doesn't work for him or her self is going to be treated like a replaceable part of little value. People respond to the way they're treated. In an increasingly neo-feudal society, we have the 1% Aristocrats, 15% retainers to the nobility, and about 84% serfs. Serfs behave as one would expect. Give somebody a realistic reason to give a shit and they usually do.
Quite so.
If I might just add, the demeaning and inhuman approach inculcated by the Harvard Business School and such warm cuddly outfits as GE has a large part to play. We have seen their ways greedily copied here in the UK by unimaginative, and often insecure, middle managers all to happy to promote their careers with some off-the-shelf template rather than rouse themselves to a higher standard that would invlve enagaging the potential loyalty and commitment of those under them. So,rather than working for bosses who inspire respect, people zone out in the face of yet another no-mark automaton demanding more hours for less return and less regard. When people are just a number, don't expect them to give a shit for the boss, the company, or whatever knobless new demand they seek to impose on the workforce. Frankly, the term "Human Resurces" speaks a volume of the lack of regard for workers from management. Lazy, witless, replicant managers are endemic in western business, and the increased disenchantment of the workforce (let's face it, there are always some malcontents but a minority) is the inevitable consequence. At an individual level of, say, the man eating from the ice-cream machine it is a personally inexcusable dereliction, but when a significant section of the workforce are utterly disheartened then it can only be the fault of the so-called leaders. Consciously or subconsciously, people know they are being abused.
Good point. About a decade ago, when Jack Welch was revered as a deity by the American executive class, treating people horribly became not just fashionable, but the understood way of things. Overall corporate culture has become just poisonous.
You're quite right to single out the term, "Human Resources." Indeed. To be mined, and the tailings discarded without a second thought. These bastards won't even fire people anymore; they send Security to escort them to the edge of the property, have temp workers box up their stuff and send it to their house by courier, and de-activate their key-card, health benefits, and whatever else by day's end. Then they contest their Unemployment claim automatically, knowing they win nearly all adjudications without review. Some jailers have more compassion for their charges, and no jailbird ever made a jailer as rich as these assholes have beecome.
Among these guys are some of the most vicious psychopaths I've ever encountered. Not all, but some. And the culture actively cultivates and encourages that.. It will be its downfall; already is. Even the smartest psychopaths will eventually screw up almost inexplicably, but we've let these people be in charge of our whole country.
Remember when Welch had to disclose his retirement package from Government Electric due to his divorce. These A-holes have golden parachutes. they feel they are completely immune from everything because they already have their exits covered. When your downside risk is covered, one can treat People like shit and/or have no real accountability for negative outcomes. Did dick grass really need or deserve a $150 million severance package?
Let us not forget "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap, the man who was deified for his graceful weilding of chainsaw's to workforces!
May he NOT rest in peace!
ori
ori, rest in Piecez?
HR people are the scum of the earth. I've seen them turn away or lay off talented hard working programmers and technicians, then turn around and hire people who they say have the required "certifications" for industry standard critical mission core competencies.
HR douchbags are the equivalent of soviet political officers.
I remember going through their annual reports and 10-Ks back in the day. The main reason is it was totally unfathomable. They had the best Wharton MBAs on the planet to rejigger their numbers to make earnings. What a con.
Most of the manufactured growth came from GE Finance. I once called them about a building they were selling. This weird Taj Mahal building that made no sense. It appeared to be cheap and was not selling. I called them at HQ in Conn. It was like calling the Mafia but mobsters would be less rude. Nasty jerkoffs.
Arrogance, sometimes mis-styled hubris, is their downfall.
"15% retainers to the nobility"---what you meant to call them were "BOOTLICKERS". They will be the easiest pickings to 'eliminate' because they are such COWARDS.....
People do what they are incentivized to do.
The government takes fully half of every penny I earn and inflates away my savings.
Am I supposed to give a fuck about my job, where people get ahead because they are connected?
YES!
Galts Gulch - find people you respect ;)
Don't let them steal you - Be who you are
They can have the numbers - you will have everything else
What happens when the military workers don't care anymore - don't want to fight and die for the "freedom" to be spied on, x-rayed in airports, taxed to death by every level of government, "free" markets, fake money, "independent" media and press? And if they change their minds about who the real "enemy" of the people is? Wait, this might just get interesting.......
WTF is "military workers?" Any parent who let's their kid join the military should be up on child abuse. It is a f**king joke - the military.
Defense contractor workers? Useless. Building crap to kill people. What is the point? How many small countries are left for us to drone, bomb and destroy.
And when did the American mentality get to the point where the instant solution is "oh let's bomb them!" When did an entire society become a bunch of cruel psychopaths? It is because we have an attention span of about 5 milliseconds.
I almost wish people would start bombing Americans with B-52s or Russian Bear bombers so they could experience being bombed. Insanity.
Remember that defence contractors and soldiers are on the public dole too. Taxes go to buy mititary hardware and for "foreign aid" to buy military hardware.
The revolving fucking circle of government foreign aid to buy weapons. Why don't we just cut the middle man out and give the money directly to the weapons manufacturers. /sarc off
Oh and it is worse than that.
Much of the newer and even older U.S. weapons are junk like the F-35, F-22 is not as bad but close. The guys behind the F-16 and A-10, which were realtively cheap, have many videos on YouTube about the F-35 turkey. Junk.
The M-4 based on the 50 year old M-16. It still has problems. not the problems of a run of the mill AR15 either. Junk.
The M-16 was total shit when it came out. Why was it pushed? Because Lady Bird owned stock in the company. Not sure if that was Colt. LBJ had stock and deals with all the defense contractors. This is one reason why JFK had to go.
yeah great scum is get an IMF or World Bank loan to buy some defective crap from the USA.
"military workers" = offense workers.
militia = defense workers.
Very astute observation
Hard to take pride in your work when you are pushing papers or shoveling french fries for a barely livable wage.
Did we think that 70+ years of pushing consumerism and urban/suburban sprawl and getting people off the farm to enrich the corporatocracy was going to improve the nation or humanity?
They call it "progress", but the truth is starting to come out.
De-evolution.
people are responding to the high level of cognitive dissonance by checking out. Our society is broken, hanging on by a thread - this is not a good portent for the future.
People are checking out because they know things are not right, but things are so complicated and (I don't mean this in an insulting way) many people are too dumb, lazy, busy, distracted and unmotivated to understand it.
We need Snowden to really step up and release everything he has, not just teasers over time. We also need Snowdens at all levels of government and MIC to step up and do the right thing. Get all of the information on the table so that the average person can easily connect the dots.
We need smoking guns (figuratively, maybe /probably literally too).
How have people checked out when they never checked in? Must people have nano second attention span and could not complete reading even this article let alone understand it.
Sad, but true.
"Welcome to Costco, I love you"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8zNsUTWsOc
snowden's fake dude get up to speed
I gave you a +1 despite not completely agreeing with you. I was in Nicaragua and my friends cousin was sick and still had to go to work. I told him why are you going to work take the day off. He said he couldn't because he was gonna lose his job if he did. When people are desperate they will do whatever it takes. Look at the illegal immigrants. They manage to work in shitty ass condition still manage to eek out a living and send money home. I admire that. These immigrants work hard usually do a better job than their American counterparts. The pigs have gotten fat off the land and forgot how to forage.
Illegal aliens are on endless numbers of govt programs including SS disability.
Illegals also help big and small businesses get richer because they do not have to pay even decent wages. We really should bring slavery back to make everyone even more productive.
Yeah some Americans are lazy worthless shits but not all of them
YEA! Dont forget the mouth breathers that think you should be making a solid living shoveling french fries...
Step 1 - turn on fryolator.
Step 2 - drop fries in basket
Step 3 - dunk basket in oil
Step 3 - wait
Step 4 - life basket from oil.
Nah, I take it back, you're right. Those morons deserve a regal existence.
Not sure what you mean by solid living.
I want the person serving and preparing my food to be happy.
It's a two way street.
The clown I was responding to used the phrase "Living wage" which I'm gonna guess isn't too far off from what you imply by being "happy".
Living wage is utter bullshit. Idiots that sling french fries deserve minimum wage and nothing more. Where do you think the money is going to come from making your fryolator retard "happy"? Probably from the people who found vaule in school and busted their asses to not be losers.
Bullshit, the fryolator retard should be fucking miserable so he can decide how much slinging fries sucks balls and goes out to better himself.
Here, let this guy explain it
http://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2014/03/31/seven-hard-truths-liberals-just-dont-want-to-hear-n1816087/page/2
When your life is shite whether you work or not, losing your job has no real consequence.
There are also many, many young people happy to have any kind of regular job at all, who are making obviously sincere efforts to add their best to what they are doing in a bad situation. I think for people of good character, with a certain kind of upbringing, slothful attitudes and 'giving up' is distasteful and undignified. Around 2007 I began to see more and more (well brought-up? College educated?) white men and women in positions that had lately been held down by minorities. They often brought an attention to service I had not seen in decades.
Yes, I said 'white.'
The worse things get in this country, and they will get worse, much worse ... the more the working wage slave class will divide itself along racial lines. We can 'all get along' but I know where I am putting my chips down. It's an instinct, tribal, what have you ... but who said there was anything wrong with going by your instincts? Oh, yes ... the technocrats that came up with this petri dish experiment called Integration and are striving to enforce its on-existent doctrine ...
You have a right to your opinion. I just got back from a great southern style restaurant, they have opened a new second location recently. Blacks made me some goooood food and served it to me. I'm worried I'm gonna get fat because I want to go back. Great recipies, great attitude, tight acts all of them.
Over generalizing is dangerous. Forcing integration at the nanny state level is dangerous too. I want you to know I hear you but respectfully think you are over generalizing.
Apply that shit outside metro area.
Over generalizing is dangerous. Forcing integration at the nanny state level is dangerous too. I want you to know I hear you but respectfully think you are over generalizing.
Worth repeating. Thank you MsCreant
I think people have "checked out" because of the obvious levels of corruption and inequity. Why would you be the person to stay on the job busting your hump when you pension is just going get Corzined, there's no point anymore in sending your kid to anywhere but Harvard, the Obamacare death panels are going to decide that someones genital mutilation--I mean "sex change"--takes precedence over whatever care you need, and paying for Obama's date nights in new york or whereever means you can't afford pizza fridays anymore.
Please help reverse the trend ;)
At under $10 an hour you get what you pay for.
Then again at $10,000 an hour you get scum like Dimon, Blankfein et al.
Human qualities, values and standards are going the way of the dodo.
Under Communism, the system pretended to pay the workers and the workers pretended to work.
Under Corporatism, the companies pretend to pay the workers and the workers pretend to work.
A rose by any other name :)
Freedom or Slavery
It's our choice
eye like ice creams
it nice
dat black fella got a real nice job i cud does thaty
mr clooney down der blocks youse to make me milk him some for nickles and dimes
he says it was are little secret said it was organic raw cream.
sure didnt taste like cow cream
Tony, the pills don't seem to be as effective as last week. Hmmm, we might have to change your prescription.
Too many ludes for Tony. I liked your posts before you adopted this ridiculous persona.
It's actually really deep, poetic, haiku. He was saying that that guy was sucking off "the machine." The machine was using him even as he thought he was using it.
It was deep metaphor about welfare, education, corporatism, and Obama etc. Honest.
Haiku? I'm not sure.
Seems more like something written
while well sedated.
Well written, mate!
Don't think I could write that well.
Prescription errorzzz...
Tony is now the new Freddy.
mr clooney haz ya milkin the cow with one nipple?
LMAO. Great stuff.
As Tyler Durden will approve...PISS IN THE SOUP.
Really? We have people wired 24 hours a day to their job. For no more money. The companies make record profits, the workers get naught.
There is no respect of workers by companies (outsourcing, offshoring, union busting, shit benefits, ...). No wonder workers don't give a shit.
At the same time, technology is making workers as replaceable as drones, so companies don't have to care.
There is a huge amount of wastage in the US, from packaging to gasoline to bureaucracy to obesity to not recycling to waging foreign wars. It is in some ways a society of excess wastage, based on a capitalism of wastage.
I was going to start procrastinating today but I think I will start Monday.
Why the rush?
An article about sloth and unprofessionalism yet not one word about the U.S. Congress. Remember, the fish stinks from the head. The last perfect document I saw was Obama's Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth, flawless, no typos, every line perfectly alligned as if generated by a computer, not a typist in a rush.
A fish also rots from the head.
So you are saying the author wrote a slothful article on sloth?
Congress does not read the bills it writes (or they have to be passed so that you can see what is in them), it gets the lobbyists to write them while they tuck campaign funds into their bras and jockstraps.
You make a valid point.
This article is intellectually lazy. It's an example of confirmation bias. Also boring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainyK6fXku0
I take a lot of pride in how I don't work.
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Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. ~ Proverbs 16:18
Your choice and not mine.
Go ahead and take pride in slothfulness.
What you sow will be that which you will reap.
Let them eat cake.
You must be a product of the school system described. It is spelled c-o-c-k.
That reminds me of an old joke about a king who would be queen.
I thought that the joke was about a US President.
When people have nothing left to lose , they lose it. - G.C.
Yea, move it, or lose it!*
"Maybe the fact that 70 million Americans are on mind-altering drugs has something to do with it."
Someone must have just been watching Reefer Madness. :)
Obviously these people dont have the ability to just sit on their arz and make money in the stock market and housing market. It is almost like they understand what is happening and would rather not have the Ziionist scourge take advantage of them. I'm almost positive if we gave them the ability to print money when ever they made a mistake they would have more concern for their actions! Wait,,,,maybe not!!
They may well be more informed than we give them credit for.
With the Soviets, it was, "We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us".
With modern American (and Euroland) socialism, it's, "They pay us whether we work, pretend to work or don't work at all."
So why would they give a rat's ass....?
The pigs in the white house are a miserable bunch of cocksuckers.
And so the lemmings and the rube are merely copying this filth.
FUCK YOU BARRY - you wrecked the fucking country you fucking pig!!!
Wage slaves may not be able to articulate, but none the less intuit the reality that confronts them. Doing a shitty job and sticking it to the man any way they can is, unfortunately, the best they can muster at this juncture. Somewhere in the back of the collective nut they see wage suppression, automation, houses held off the market to inflate prices- screwing some and enriching others, fields left fallow and farmers paid not to produce to inflate food cost, the joke that is still healthcare, and their hard earned dollars stolen and used to oppress other poor people.
If revolution is, for some reason, unthinkable and untenable strike where you can: The soft serve machine.
Hmm, sounds like you're saying that "Moral Hazard" is contagious!
As are many dis-eases.
Is that Jamie Dimon with his mouth on the ice cream machine of America?
You didnt eat that ice cream...
That is what Jaime Dimon looks like when he is around satan's penis.
I believe the student answered the question... i would score it the same
I hate the fed as much as anyone. I hate the fed like my chickens hated me. But I personally have a standard that I won't compromise on. I can and will maintain that standard for my own benefit and that of my family, the fed be damned back to hell. I can maintain both positions, this is not a binary decision tree. The article is two-dimensional.
Read it again. Take another look.
That student should complain about getting knocked down to an A minus! Oh, I get it, the teacher was a Sierra Mist fan.
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
-Robert A. Heinlein
Specialization is what enables our society to run and is the basis for evolution. I grow a garden annually and know a lot about growing and grafting plans but I would never butcher a hog because I don't the time/knowledge required to do so nor would I want to ruin/contaminate the meat in the process.
Ditto critical things like setting a broken leg which if not done properly will have all kind of dire and long-term consequences. In in the most basic organizations of human tribes, you quickly see specialization and that is a good thing. Humans are an incredibly fragile and weak physical species that can't last alone for long in isolation especially in cold weather.
People shouldn't waste their time with empty TV consumption and other activities? No and people need to keep constantly learning in life but there are only so many hours in the day and as someone with a family & kids you only have some much available bandwidth. Figure out how to balance it and make it all work is a daily grind and struggle but it has its minutes where it is worth it.
Point taken, but there are also advantages to being a 'Generalist'.
Gardening should have taught you that if you don't grow, you rot.
You hang a pig upside down and cut its throat to let it bleed out over a basin so as to save the blood to mix with cereals and spices for blood sausage, yum. You open it down the middle, careful not to spill the contents of the intestines into the abdomen. You disembowel it and rinse the intestines very well, as it is used for sausage casing when thoroughly cleaned. All the organs of the abdomen and chest are removed. The liver and kidneys are delicious and the heart goes for head cheese along with the head and tongue minus the brain, ears and eyes. The brains can be used to tan the hide in the ancient method after it is skinned. The dogs usually get the ears. The fat is well trimmed and thrown into a pot and heated until it melts and clarifies, The crunchy bits, or cracklings, are skimmed off and eaten as a treat. What you have left is lard, which has many uses and I still use it - its the guilty secret of my flaky pie crust. The cuts of a pig are marked out in any cook book, at least the old ones. Bacon and hams are generally smoked, but that is another skill set.
Damn straight about the old cookbooks.
I butchered my first whitetail deer using a cookbook at age 15.
Parents did not know crap, except how to eat it.
Stripped that 150 lb'er down to the bone, zero waste.
Gets easier every time.
Slave training at it's best. I'm helpless, and I always must appeal to authority for anything outside my "specialization". This is how you concentrate wealth, one method.
Why authority, why not voluntary trade between two people that specialize in different skills? You really want a society where everyone is a subsistence farmer that makes their own clothes, treats their own sickness, pulls their own teeth, stitches themselves?
Because if you only know "specialization", then you are not aware of being used, of being enslaved by stealth.
The way to avoid that is be both a specialist and a generalist. No limits. Know as much as you can.
I work 50+ hrs/week, have younger 2 kids, and have several outside activities. I'm glad you live in fantasy-land where you can 'specialize' in whatever you choose but I'm lucky if I can squeeze in 5-6 hours solid hurs/night.
The point is that if you are only a specialist, then you are on the road to becoming a robot - plug and play.
As a person, you are responsible for life in total on many levels - you must know and act in many capacities.
Specialization is what enables our society to run and is the basis for evolution.
And I thought that it was Genetic Diversity that allowed for the evolutionary process to enhance the prospect for survival. When gene pools become too restrictive it just leads to extinction.
But what do I know? I am just one of those Theists.