The world as we know it is ending. Why are we still at work?
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some of use are betting on things continuing, and we would like to stay alive, prosper, and maybe even get ahead whilst you are busy freaking out. or at least hedge our bets a little.
i'm too busy and tired picking up the slack to do this personally. but i wouldn't be surprised if one could take a look back through history to get an idea of whether this kind of slightly-less-than-ideal worldwide condition has ever come up before, and whether life did in fact go on...
Not to minimize anything at all but realize fully that our generation (speaking broadly) is playing on easy-mode. It can and (may someday be) a LOT worse.
And yet - it will still not be the end of the world. Not even close.
This bothers me quite a bit. Only office workers get off? Why not everyone? This seems like some class warfare type bullshit. Everyone is under stress, and the physical laborers may be even worse of simply due to the physical nature of their work
Business don't give a shit about workers and this only reinforces that belief. This is a thin facade of caring about workers in that only the ones that don't really matter are treated well. IMO that's what makes this class warfare. It's all the people with cushy high paying jobs that get cares for, and all the others get shat on
In most cases, when physical labor doesn't get performed, people notice. There are consequences that ripple out, affecting other people or systems.
In most cases, when office work doesn't get performed, people don't notice. Things just stay the same.
The system rewards cheaper and faster. But that's an issue of (primarily financial) incentives, not sociocultural biases.
> The system rewards cheaper and faster. But that's an issue of (primarily financial) incentives, not sociocultural biases.
Abusing other workers is a common phenomena at all levels of a company. Low level team leads (line/operations managers) are almost always of the same "class" as the people under them. They almost always ascend from those lower ranks.
In any given instance of abuse, there may be other factors. But there is always a zero sum financial incentive to do so - to exploit others to benefit oneself.
To be clear, I'm not in any way defending CEOs or any other executives. As a category, they are grossly, inexcusably overcompensated for the value they deliver. I'm just saying that the issue is systemic, pervasive.
These are the typical exagerations of those who cannot mantain perspective .
These are the same people who scream "We are all gonna die!!!" on a plane during a small turbolence.
I wonder how would the author manage to function had she lived in the 1800s or the 1300s during the great plague.
She'd have offed herself before the plague would have a chance to infect her.
This kind of apocalyptic thinking is also damaging to the birth rate "why have children in such a world". The irony here is that is literally how the world can end.
There's also a fallacy of the hinge of history. Everyone thinks they are living in the most important of times ever and they have always done throughout history.