I don't know what is happening right now. Are we saying on an airline forum what's wrong with America is that it's wrong to want to work less for your money vs working harder for it? I mean hey whatever floats your boat. I was highlighting people got a good hand to hangout, gain seniority, and enjoy time off paid. Think you two are going off into the weeds in what was a more sarcastic post but still
YES. That IS what
I'm saying, kind of.
I'm not saying it's bad to be efficient. I'm saying it's bad to expect to get paid without providing any actual value commensurate to one's contribution. You know -for the chosen few- being born on third base and assuming you hit a triple. OR, more typically -for the relatively highly paid wage slaves- having a job for which one's actual work schedule has no relationship to actual growing seasons, demand cycles, or even traditional "work weeks". In other words, getting paid in measure
not associated with one's actual contribution to production or profit.
So, from that standpoint, you are correct to be shocked.
Damned near everything we know these days about
work ethic and
productivity and
"wealth creation" is modern popular mythology, marketed to you for the last 40 years by a billionaire near YOU!
Y'all talk about "work ethic" and "pulling one'self up by one's bootstraps" and "I grew up in a log cabin, and now I'm a millionaire" and "those dadgum'd lazy gubmin't employees with their pensions and their health insurance and their lazy ways" and "I love cops, 'cept for them cops what try to protect the citadel of our democracy" and "I love veterans, 'cept for them for which I have to pay for healthcare" and, and, and, and... you name the
obviously hypocritical statement of the modern political "dialog".
For over 40 years now, we've all been taught by billionaires -and the marketing firms and politicians purchased by those billionaires- to hate each other because of non-issues like gun control and abortion and owerriaaaaghts! You know, fabricated issues designed to anger us and distract us from the bigger issues that, unaddressed, lead us working stiffs to fall deeper into the abyss of a neo-feudalistic reality. To wit: that all us working stiffs continue to live "at the pleasure of" the billionaire class.
, meanwhile some of my classmates are going for their first airplane in January. I'll have two types before they even fly a jet. How did I get so unlucky!
