• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      Plenty of them are just liars. They’ll look you dead in the eye and tell you “When I was your age, I worked 29 hours a day and 10 days per week”.

      Others simply don’t want to acknowledge that the nature of their “work” is play. Flying from party to party with their gaggle of C-level friends, wining and dining clients and patrons, getting a Bill Clinton style office break between angry calls to your junior managers to “work harder!”, playing Sim City or Factorio with a billion dollars in state money unconcerned with the end result because you already took out a big chunk as your share, golfing…

      None of these assholes are doing manual labor. They’re all just schmoozing with one another and collecting a vig on the cash that passes through their hands.

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    Fuck you. I am whoring out my brainpower and will do only what I’m paid for. If it happens to take only an hour each workday, that’s not my concern.

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    Anybody that deep in that awfulness is of course going to try to play it off like a badge of honor. So hard to see it for what it is from there.

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    Only 13% of adults in India have attainted tertiary education vs 17% in China, and 50% in the U.S. Explains where the bulk of productivity is in those countries, hard and blue collar labor. So this explains this guy’s pov, he basically wants to exploit labor as hard as possible.

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/232951/university-degree-attainment-by-country/

    Republicans want to create that kind of system here in the U.S. because they’re convinced that you don’t need an educated population to maintain US GDP supremacy, completely neglecting that the bulk of US services are centered around work that’s not hard labor or blue collar related. Even if the U.S. makes a transition to blue collar or hard labor work in the next decade, it will never attain the same kind of productivity as India and China in this respect because of the different cultural make up of these respective countries…unless, there’s a brain drain and people who want a higher quality of life abandon ship to a non-factory country.

    But importantly, the reason China and India have that kind of GDP output given their respective focus in the first place is precisely because the U.S. focuses its attention on financial and technical innovation. So if everyone shifts to pushing hard labor, then what happens? Someone’s going to have to pick up the slack, and it’s likely going to be the EU unless Russia steam rolls over them.

    The way nations and their leaders decide to do things is interesting, often to the detriment of sane long term investments.

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    13 days ago

    In reality you are just addicted to making money so what you are saying is “I do drugs and so should everyone”

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    14 days ago

    What’s the point? If you’re not enjoying your life and you think everyone else should be doing this too so it’s not like your “sacrifice” is so that they can enjoy life, then what are you working for?

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    You know some jobs could do that if it wasn’t mentally or physically taxing. If you’re waiting around because your processes suck you can do so called long hours.