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[Zangi]

Ah, yes... taking the easy way out.

You ain't a criminal if you do criminal things... if you do it under the guise of a bigass international business/corporation that could easily disrupt the world economy.

[Techhead]

And here I thought that our frequent military ventures have demonstrated that national security interests took precedence over the economy.

[Zangi]

And here I thought that our frequent military ventures have demonstrated that national security interests took precedence over the economy.

Maybe the military economy has precedence over the rest?  Financial institutions probably ain't negatively effected by it either...

[Scoops Novel]

What courses of action are available to you and your contemporaries?

[SalmonGod]

Two secret funding organizations revealed that have been used by billionaires to channel nearly half a billion in funding to climate change denial over the last 10 years.

[SalmonGod]

Yeah... emotional burnout is bad.  The problem is so many people still believe stuff like this is conspiracy crap, and will tell you to take your tinfoil hat elsewhere if you suggest that it might be going on.  I share stuff like this so that those people can start to feel it, and the burnouts in the know can share too.

[SalmonGod]

Occupy is suing federal Wall Street regulators.

[Scoops Novel]

A better name. If this takes off the ground, please a better name (or someone tell me if theres meaning I'm missing). The article could do without phrases like "raising concerns as to whether the 99 percent can ever obtain justice there." I sincerely hope they're not using that in any speeches. Hopefully good news, nevertheless.

[Rose]

So I feel this should go here.

[Askot Bokbondeler]

ptw

[SalmonGod]

This person nails so much of what I've been trying to tell people for years.

The only thing I think he missed is that the 40 hour work week also serves to isolate people.  After 8 hours of forced interaction, often a context of subtle or one-sided conflict, most people have very little energy left for building meaningful relationships in their free time.  This is a major factor in keeping us powerless.

There's no logical reason for most of us to still be working these schedules.  The only explanation is that it's understood if standard working hours were reduced, the floodgates would be opened for a torrent of change that would challenge the dominance of the upper classes.

[alexandertnt]

This person nails so much of what I've been trying to tell people for years.

I don't work a 9 to 5 job (being a Uni student), but thats basically what I fear will happen, Plus add in the "career this and career that" that people seemed so focused on.

It would seem that as things become more efficient and automated, people are choosing to buy more stuff rather than work less.

[Askot Bokbondeler]

It would seem that as things become more efficient and automated, people are choosing to buy more stuff rather than work less.

that's not it, it's that as things become more and more automated companies can afford to employ less people, and because there are a lot more people looking for work employees are easily replaceable and can be treated like shit, so instead of the working day becoming shorter and salaries increasing matching the increased productivity, the working day is becoming longer, salaries remain mostly stagnant despite the inflation, and unemployment is rampant

[alexandertnt]

I was mostly venting my general fustration with the way everything seems to be centered around purchasing some random crap to make you happy for 5 minutes, I should clarify that I was not specifically blaming people and not corporations.

But your observation leads to an interesting idea: Why not reduce the working time? If people worked 4 hour days instead of 8 wouldn't it create the necessity for more jobs and lead to more free time to pursue personal interests?

[DJ]

Personally I'd prefer a four day workweek.