Finding meaning at work beats family and kindness as the top ambition of today’s young people....
Without work, including nonsalaried labor like raising a child, most people tend to feel miserable. Some evidence suggests that long-term unemployment is even more wrenching than losing a loved one, since the absence of an engaging distraction removes the very thing that tends to provide solace to mourners in the first place.
There is nothing wrong with work, when work must be done. And there is no question that an elite obsession with meaningful work will produce a handful of winners who hit the workist lottery: busy, rich, and deeply fulfilled. But a culture that funnels its dreams of self-actualization into salaried jobs is setting itself up for collective anxiety, mass disappointment, and inevitable burnout...
But our desks were never meant to be our altars. The modern labor force evolved to serve the needs of consumers and capitalists, not to satisfy tens of millions of people seeking transcendence at the office...
On a deeper level, Americans have forgotten an old-fashioned goal of working: It’s about buying free time. The vast majority of workers are happier when they spend more hours with family, friends, and partners, according to research conducted by Ashley Whillans, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School.
Excerpts from long article here which provides some social commentary I thought some would find interesting.
Pure unadulterated crap.
“In his 1930 essay “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren,” the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted a 15-hour workweek in the 21st century, creating the equivalent of a five-day weekend...”
He was spot-on! Average out the hours we work, and for all of us busting out humps there are those doing nothing at all; probably averages out to 15-hour workweeks all around!
The real problem is that economic uncertainty (primarily due to globalism) have forced people to invest much more in their jobs if they want to keep them...
What a nasty, far lefty moron this gut is!
15-hour workweek
Half a week off made me and the wife crazy trying to stay entertained.
an explosion of new atheisms
On a deeper level, Americans have forgotten an old-fashioned goal of working: It’s about buying free time. The vast majority of workers are happier when they spend more hours with family, friends, and partners, according to research conducted by Ashley Whillans, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School."
Well said Daniel.
I will have to look up Ms. Ashley Whillans.
Thank You for posting. Very interesting.
40% of work time is wage slavery for the benefit of the gov’t.
Takers spend 0% of their time working for the gov’t.
Total Social Injustice.
5 of their time working for the Gov’t.
“And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: ‘If you don’t work you die.’”
http://www.eliteskills.com/c/1460
40% of Maker worker time is wage slavery for the benefit of the gov’t.
Takers spend 0% of their time working for the gov’t.
Total Social Injustice.
People are not at home. Who’s raising the kids?
John Maynard Keynes the idiot who preached a nation could tax and spend as the way to prosperity and FDR loved it.
Keynes was a dirtbag who didn’t have a clue.
Keynes was a dirtbag who didn’t have a clue.
I hate how people in my subculture worship “what people do” and their work. And what their kids will do. Some of them are not kind or nice people and yet the subculture involves a religion based on kindness. They don’t even get the irony.
Luckily I started with Dennis Prager when my first was 3, and I realized it was more important for me that my children were GOOD, more important even than happy or successful. I pray they reach all three, of course. Dennis Prager hit me at the right time to affect the way I parented.
-PJ
I enjoy working. I want to work until I literally drop dead. I don’t ever want to retire.
No large country in the world as productive as the United States