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Cellar Scribblings
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: bentgyro on June 29, 2016, 10:56:53 am ---Like when someone asks if I'm staying out of trouble,,,,,at my age it's pretty hard to GET in trouble! :laugh:
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LOL
People will say to me "stay out of trouble" and I'll always answer "Do I have to?" and then think to myself, "Oh, who am I kidding?"
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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on June 29, 2016, 11:04:58 am ---LOL
People will say to me "stay out of trouble" and I'll always answer "Do I have to?" and then think to myself, "Oh, who am I kidding?"
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CellarDweller:
Hello Bettermost Friends!
I soooooooooo agree with this card...why do we have to be he 8 hours? slash it to four!!D
serious crayons:
For a long time economists predicted that increased automation and productivity would allow people to work fewer hours, that by the 21st century we would all be working four hours a day or maybe less. Instead, as a population we work more hours than before. The explanation, I guess, is that we feel we need increasing amounts of fancy stuff and have to work to pay for it.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on June 30, 2016, 10:03:25 am ---For a long time economists predicted that increased automation and productivity would allow people to work fewer hours, that by the 21st century we would all be working four hours a day or maybe less. Instead, as a population we work more hours than before. The explanation, I guess, is that we feel we need increasing amounts of fancy stuff and have to work to pay for it.
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There is a famous sequence in the wonderful old movie Dinner at Eight, where Jean Harlow tells Marie Dressler that she's been reading a funny sort of book where the author says that eventually machines will be doing everything for us, and Dressler responds that that isn't anything Harlow will have to worry about. ...
We do need to pay for our fancy stuff, but I think perhaps the main reason why so many people are working even more than before is fear--fear that somebody else will get ahead of us, fear that we'll lose our jobs if we don't appear to be working enough.
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