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AnnetteJacobs

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22. It's become a sin to NOT be busy in America

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Mon Jul 13, 2015, 10:13 PM

Jul 2015

Whenever I ask friends how they are, the answer invariably is, "Busy, busy, busy."

Then if I tell them I'm not so busy nowadays, they look at me as though they resent having to put in so many hours into their work, and I don't.

Maybe it's time they aim their resentment at whoever is making them work so many hours in the first place.

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Paul Krugman- The Laziness Doctrine [View all] n2doc Jul 2015 OP

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It's become a sin to NOT be busy in America AnnetteJacobs Jul 2015 #22

+1000 smirkymonkey Jul 2015 #24

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