9:30pm December 30, 2013

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But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work.

We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.
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Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (via felicefawn)

Working ‘till exhausted doesn’t get that much more done, it just makes people exhausted. >.<

And those at the top don’t work much at all and get payed millions for it.

(via soilrockslove)

Weirdly enough, just feeling like you HAVE to get 8 hours of work done in an 8 hour shift is enough to make it really hard to be as productive as you might otherwise be.

I have long wished it was standard for employers to determine productivity on the basis of actual, tangible objectives accomplished rather than on the basis of either how long someone is present at the office or what they look like when they’re there. (I have a lot of trouble “looking busy” even when I AM ridiculously busy..).

(via feliscorvus)

My brother (also autistic) had this messed-up thing happen at work. Where he basically… got pulled off a job, or something like that, because his boss told him the client said he “didn’t look like he knew what he was doing”. The client had no actual complaints about the work he did, just that he didn’t “look right” while he was doing it.

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