Decline of Functioning Society

[It_Is_My_Time]

It's a lot better than office work, but there's still wasted time with manual labor.

So true, and the commute, all to just not have to live around the very same diversity, that you are then forced at work to say you support, and the time wasted with that.

 

[PurpleUrkel]

I don’t work a job that is the standard 40 hour work week right now. I’m more focused on how it affects people in general.

... agree, I think around 25 to 30 hours a week is ideal.

The problem isn't the amount of hours we work.

When you love what you do for money, or at least enjoy it to some degree, you can't help but put in 60+ hours a week. And when you don't feel like you've done the full 60 hours you feel "off" as if you've been slacking. When you are passionate about your work you can't wait to get up in the morning to "get to it," and you never count the hours you put in.

If you don't feel this way about work then you are working in the wrong domain/profession.

 

[It_Is_My_Time]

When you love what you do for money, or at least enjoy it to some degree, you can't help but put in 60+ hours a week. And when you don't feel like you've done the full 60 hours you feel "off" as if you've been slacking. When you are passionate about your work you can't wait to get up in the morning to "get to it," and you never count the hours you put in.

If you don't feel this way about work then you are working in the wrong domain/profession.

That is true, and this was discussed in this thread recently. But the % of people who love what they do and actually make enough to put food on the table, are very few and far in-between. This is about decline of a functioning society, and a large part of that is people forced to perform work they do not enjoy for 50 years.

 

[Giordano Bruno]

 

[Australia Sucks]

Just saw this:

Only people with bullshit jobs (HR, management consultant, Occupational Health and Safety Co-ordinator, etc) sit around posting on Instagram etc because there isn’t 40 hours worth of work to do. Speaking from experience people with manual labour intensive jobs (unless they work for the government) rarely have a minute to scratch their heads at work because they are so busy.

 

[Giordano Bruno]

In the second century, a Christian apologist tried to explain to pagans what made Christians so different.

He said: “Like others, they marry and have children, but they do not destroy their offspring.”

Strange indeed.

It took a few centuries before Christians acquired any political influence in the Roman empire, but when they did, they passed laws outlawing infanticide (in AD 374).

Then they passed laws granting government aid to poor families so they would not be tempted to abandon them or expose them.

Yet infanticide was ended only when the clergy finally persuaded parents to give up their babies at the door of the church instead — which gave rise to the first orphanages.

Today Western societies are reversing course – we’re seeing an increase in abortion and infanticide.

We are losing the mindset that regards children as persons made in God’s image, to be valued and cherished in their own right.