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For perspective: Last night's Lost finale got 13 million viewers, 2.5 hours each, so that's 32.5 million hours wasted there. The Superbowl gets ~100 million v
by hugh3 16y ago
For perspective:
Last night's Lost finale got 13 million viewers, 2.5 hours each, so that's 32.5 million hours wasted there.
The Superbowl gets ~100 million viewers and lasts... what, three hours? So that's 300 million hours wasted there.
The soccer world cup final is rumoured to get something on the order of a billion viewers, so... that's a lot of hours wasted.
And your entire life, if you never do anything in the least bit worthwhile, will be a waste of approximately 700,000 hours.
- minouye 16y agoIMO watching the Super Bowl is time well spent...
- Charuru 16y agoWrong audience.
- Sukotto 16y agoHow many of those things impact productivity during work hours?
- jorgeortiz85 16y agoMexico shuts down during Mexican world cup games. People don't work, there are literally no cars on the street.
- jacquesm 16y agoIn NL that does not happen officially, but if you're looking for some fast service when there is a game on then better forget it and try again in a few days. The amount of 'sick leave' around those days is also well above average.
- pyre 16y agoI would hate to see what the super/food/farmer's markets are like leading up to a Mexican World Cup game... People must really have to stock up.
- GFischer 16y agoHeh, replace Mexico with Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil... we're all fanatics "down here" (South America) Offtopic: the Mexico-Uruguay match will be fun :) (yes, Uruguayan here)
- treyp 16y agoi don't like the throwing around of the term 'wasted' even if you mean 'wasted potential work time', who's to say that entertainment in short bursts doesn't increase productivity by preventing burn out?
- malnourish 16y agoI agree. I always here about how people "waste time" by enjoying themselves. Since when is enjoying yourself a waste of time? This sort of talk is often directed at financially stable people, too. Sure, there may be "better" things to do with one's time, but we only have one life to live (that we can acknowledge, anyway) so I feel some leisure time is well deserved.
- hugh3 16y agoOf course I was being facetious in describing them as wasted, just as the original article was. If you really thought of every moment spent at leisure as "wasted time" you'd go mad. The vast majority of hours of anyone's life are "wasted" in one sense or another, so it's not my problem how anyone else chooses to waste theirs. I just hope that when I get to the end of my hours that the top few hundred of 'em will be enough to justify the hundreds of thousands I spent doing stuff rapidly forgotten.
- ugh 16y agoMany people would say the hours where you are productive in order to rake in some money are – in some sense – wasted. Time in which you can do whatever you like is what life is all about. You are truly lucky if you can make money with that but most people cannot.