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So what did this person do when they weren't on your sofa?

• idlewords 7y ago
  Not a heck of a lot
  • put_it_this_way 7y ago
    Looking back on life, I've often been surrounded by a ratio of like 5:1, people doing nothing while I bust my fucking ass. Me being the one, to maybe five other morons, maybe more, maybe less. There are A LOT of idiotic jobs, A LOT of idiots holding them down, and in many cases it's upper eschelon assholes delegating to puppy dogs, running around in circles, everyone wasting everyone else's time. Put a default paycheck on the table, enough to cover room and board, and the truly wasteful members of the upper eschelon lose their ability to command minions, and order their wasteful behaviors around on a whim. I don't think you get what that might mean. Have you ever had a pointy-haired boss. I know you must have. I read your blog. Go back in time, and imagine getting all those years of working worthless jobs for losers back. Getting your youth back. Using your own judgement to determine what's valuable, and putting your extra effort there. Maybe, just maybe, it could be just as bad, letting the grunts chose where they fight. But you know what? Maybe not. Because there's still the leverage of permitting people to put their work where they want to see it make a difference, by gatekeeping according to acquired skills. So we disassemble all the made-for-tv productized infommercial industrial waste, and obviate a lot of dead end media, journalism and advertising, and ostensibly we get real traction in return. Maybe, maybe not. But my gut tells me I'll spend less time as a servile obsequious worm, more time as someone finding genuine worth in their actions, and so too many others should notice the same effect.