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In reply to the discussion: I watched "Where to Invade Next" last night. [View all]HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Spending more than half of your waking day preparing for, performing or commuting to/from your job isn't living. It's a slow and depressing death. It's not so much the people or the job, but the idea.
I really do not see the point of being physically present at a workplace for 10 hours a day. My place is a trainwreck because I have no time to organize or do anything to it.
Protestant Work Ethic is a concept that really needs to get to steppin'. It's an anachronism in 2016. We're burnt from the time we step in a classroom . . . did you know Finnish kids go to school 20-25 hours a week, have little to no homework and their kids perform ridiculously well in testing over ours?
Then there's the debt-to-diploma track, another useless by-the-balls scam likely designed by the MIC to funnel broke kids into their war machine.
Killing ourselves in the name of for-profit racketeering. What a life.