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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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jingo

That’s exactly what’s going on, and the folks at the top still think they’re being lenient to their workers.

Think Americans are becoming too apathetic, uncaring, disengaging, etc.?  It’s because we’re literally too worn out to do anything else.  The current work culture tries to monopolize the energy we spend on any given day.  If your whole life doesn’t revolve around your job, then you aren’t working hard enough in the eyes of the corporation and you’re getting a lecture about it by HR because you’re a slacker.

Heck, our schools are doing the same thing to our current generation of kids in preparation for even more demanding work schedules when they become adults.

At this rate, America will literally work itself to death.

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homunculus-argument

The absolute height of the unintentional comedy of life that I have seen was in the finnish glass museum. Interior design is one of those things that's kind of a big deal here, one of those things that people who grew up somewhere are surprised to hear that their country is not all that known for. My friends share it in the group chat every time an american movie or show they're watching has a vase, water glass or candleholder in the background that they immediately spotted was by a finnish designer. I took up a whole paragraph to make it clear that this is A Whole Thing here.

Anyway, in the glass museum, one of the displays was a feast table set with the absolute classics, hits and highlights of finnish glassware designs - the absolutely fanciest plates and serving dishes, wine glasses and water glasses, carafes and pitchers. I could pretty confidently say that the entire presentation, if sold item-for-item, cost more than my first car. Perhaps twice as much, easy. An unfathomably expensive, fancy, finest table set of finnish design that you and I are too poor to ever get our hands on.

And on one of the plates was a dead fly.

And I had never seen anything funnier in my life. All these fine dishes and plates all empty, and on just one plate at the end of the table was a dead fly chilling on its back like that was the whole feast. The main course. One single dead fly. A human could not have thought of anything more absurdly funny than the specific location that one random fly had died out of pure happenstance. I fought myself so hard to keep my volume to museum-acceptable levels that instead of laughing out loud I went straight into hysterical gasping with tears in my eyes. I could not perfectly recreate the image from memory, but I can't let you go before I try to sketch it nonetheless:

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