Gregory's ServerI mean, imagine thinking people having more time for self care, or just to live a little bit, is a bad thing.
She is going to haunt me for a long time.
Imagine being against people eating breakfast.
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@jameschip @threedaymonk @jameschip David Graeber’s essay on “Bullshit Jobs” was very enlightening on this kind of thing @threedaymonk It is very easy: if you work, you are busy. If you work and are miserable, you are busy and tired. This way you can't start thinking and realizing that the system is broken. You know, people could get ideas ... let's not give them time to start thinking... @jameschip it’s not like companies are paying for the 90 minutes. If companies had to pay for commuting time I reckon they’d start to see that time as a whole lot more valuable.  @jameschip I think this comes from early Protestantism, together with the notion of laziness (I should read up on this), and overall our infatuation with "productivity" and "efficiency" is very non-human, and also entirely capitalist.  This reminds me of my father-in-law railing against "unproductive members of society" and so I asked him about the idle rich: Why shouldn't trust-fund babies be compelled to work also? Then, all of a sudden, his tune changed completely. It's almost like it was never about "productivity" in the first place… @muiiio @jameschip this feels right to me, with a possible factor that they self-identify with the rich enough that they’re saying that because they don’t want to say “you’re probably slacking off at home” outright. There’s a deep strain of hustle culture which desperately wants to believe everyone would be wealthy if they just worked a little more or spent less. I’ve even seen people say that to low-wage hourly workers who had no plausible way to get ahead without changing the system. @acdha @muiiio @jameschip Related: my mind still keeps coming back to a Washington Post article from a year or so ago where they interviewed a DoD manager about telework. They had been deadset against it pre-pandemic, but acknowledged that everyone being fully remote didn't hurt their mission. Their conclusion about the "future of work": well, maybe going forward one day a week of telework wouldn't be so bad. WTF? it's not so much an infatuation as an indoctrination into the idea that suffering will be rewarded. not now, but later, when justice will be served to all of humanity, then you'll be rewarded for your suffering and get to watch your masters suffer instead and it's not just protestant christianity that has this ethic, it's all of it, it's just that protestants hate the jews a bit more and really want to clean out every piece of ritual and mystery  @muiiio @jameschip I was going to add that allowing time for self care also makes people more productive in the long run—but that's besides the point
 People following me because of this toot expecting cutting social commentary are going to be dissapointed to find I mostly toot about gardening and moss.  Oooo, gardening and moss, that's what I'm here for, all the way down. I'm waiting for my Seville oranges to ripen.  @jameschip Your gardening and moss content is a much appreciated part of my fedi diet
@jameschip - gardening and moss sit well with me. There are Japanese gardens that consist of little more...  @jameschip I wasn't going to follow you because of that toot, but now you've convinced me  @jameschip Did you know that working from home results in people having 1½ hours of free time to spend on gardening?!  @jameschip what if I followed for moss and am thoroughly enjoying the social commentary?  @jameschip i see — you oppose maximizing productivity because rolling stones don’t gather any moss.   @jameschip you didnt had me at cutting social commentary, but you did had me at gardening and moss  @jameschip How dare you be so unproductive. Get your hustle on, we got a system to destroy. /s    @jameschip "I highly doubt it." |
@jameschip The Moby Dick bot happens to have a fitting quote this morning
https://botsin.space/@mobydick/110699769107062591