To him, therefore, every luxury of the worker seems to be reprehensible, and everything that goes beyond the most abstract need – be it in the realm of passive enjoyment, or a manifestation of activity – seems to him a luxury. Political economy, this science of wealth, is therefore simultaneously the science of renunciation, of want, of saving and it actually reaches the point where it spares man the need of either fresh air or physical exercise. This science of marvelous industry is simultaneously the science of asceticism, and its true ideal is the ascetic but extortionate miser and the ascetic but productive slave. Its moral ideal is the worker who takes part of his wages to the savings-bank, and it has even found ready-made a servile art which embodies this pet idea: it has been presented, bathed in sentimentality, on the stage. Thus political economy – despite its worldly and voluptuous appearance – is a true moral science, the most moral of all the sciences. Self-renunciation, the renunciation of life and of all human needs, is its principal thesis. The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theater, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, i.e., the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being. Everything which the political economist takes from you in life and in humanity, he replaces for you in money and in wealth; and all the things which you cannot do, your money can do. It can eat and, drink, go to the dance hall and the theater; it can travel, it can appropriate art, learning, the treasures of the past, political power – all this it can appropriate for you – it can buy all this: it is true endowment. Yet being all this, it wants to do nothing but create itself, buy itself; for everything else is after all its servant, and when I have the master I have the servant and do not need his servant. All passions and all activity must therefore be submerged in avarice
— Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Sometimes I wish I could resurrect him just so he could see how amazingly he predicted the world to come, but then I think within 10 minutes of seeing how bad it's got he'd throw himself in front of a bus
There's a bus coming in 10 minutes? Ooh la la, now the feds you know you're in a fancy town.
TFW you miss the bus by 10 seconds and now you’re an hour late for work
TFW you miss the bus by 10 seconds and now you have to wait until the morning to throw yourself in front of the next one.
by then you could probably just drink yourself to death... or at least have a worthy attempt
Your town has any non-car transportation AT ALL? Hey everyone, get a load of Mr. Moneybags over here.
Sorry to burst your bubble, fancy lad, but Hexbear doesn’t take too kindly to the bourgeoisie. I don’t think this site is for you.
How do people use his fitness brand without the time afforded by work life balance? Snake eating its own tail
Gyms don't actually want you to go. They want you to pay and then never use the equipment. It saves them money that way
Not to mention the insurance on those places. Real easy for people to get hurt. Nobody goes to the gym, nobody gets hurt, nobody has to pay out.
I recall reading that c-suite types think of exercise as part of their work day.
Every so often one of them will post a detailed breakdown of their "work day" and it's usually 90% stuff like that. Hell, if the average worker had the schedule of a c-suite no one would complain about work-life balance. But liver failures might increase drastically.
When asked what the most difficult part of their day is, Prathibha Varkey, CEO of Yale New Haven Health’s Northeast Medical Group said:
driving between the different practices,… driving can be physically exhausting
he was lowkey complaining that the board didn't approve the purchase of another company jet and helicopter
-- just making this up, but could be true
God I wish. If I could count it in my work day like they do then I'd be benching 315
These people look at Japan's suicide rate and think. "Gee I wonder how we can bring that here."
I just looked up the annual work hours because I was sure South Korea was a better example, and it is but also Americans work more hours per year than Japanese workers, lol.
Do we actually? This is horseshit. If I fell asleep at work I would be fired.
this writer has some other fun headlines:
The tidal wave of AI-augmented work is coming sooner than you think, consultancy CEO says: ‘Not even in the next five years, in the next year or two’
Gen Zers could swipe millennials’ jobs if they have AI skills, LinkedIn and Microsoft data shows
Google just dropped millions of dollars to teach more people how to use AI—and an exec says it could ‘create a reinvigoration of the American middle class’
Want a four-day workweek? Head to Singapore
consultancy CEO
Might be the only source I'd trust less than a consultancy.
My heart and soul are dedicated to improving the profits of Crunch Fitness.
Wait… what do you mean you’re laying me off?
a guy I worked with at a startup a few years back just became a target of discussion on Blind because he shaved the company's logo on his head and posted it on linked in
he was the biggest kool aid drinker i'd ever met - bought everything on the "company store" there was.. socks, shirts, hoodies, hat, magnets, etc
but.. shaving the logo into your hair... 3 years into the job? what. the. fuck?
the number of people laughing that this isn't going to prevent him from being laid off is hilariously high
shaving the logo into your hair
This only shows his lack of the commitment, he should tattoo it on his forehead.
I PLEDGE MY DEDICATION TO WINCHELL'S DONUTS #5932
MY LIFE FOR WINCHELL'S DONUTS #5932
AVE WINCHELL'S DONUTS #5932
WINCHELL'S DONUTS #5932 UBER ALLES
I am fully committed to my life, so yes, I agree that work life balance should not exist. Let us live.
I kind of get giving up work-life balance if you're like working in tech and they give equity or working in finance and there's massive bonuses or you're early in an academic career and want tenure. Why the fuck would anyone want to spend 60 hours a week giving out towels? What's the point of being fully committed to that?
Pretending I'm very passionate about ball sweat because maybe I'll be blessed with a company branded water bottle
This kind of disgusting thinking should land you straight in a
When I first got my PT certification I interviewed at Crunch and they mostly asked me how many supplements I thought I could sell
