re: #1 Eclectic Cyborg

Got CL’d downstairs:

Not too mention working non-stop WITHOUT breaks will destroy your productivity and make you a tired, aggravated, miserable person.

That’s why it’s called work-life BALANCE.

I’ve been working on creating a board game in my spare time. Some nights what I do, is I come home from work, eat dinner, spend a few hours working on the game and then watch TV or play video games for awhile before I go to bed.

Some nights I put some extra time in on the game. Some nights none at all.

There is more to life than fucking working yourself to death. This is so unique to American culture. Other countries have rest periods mandated BY LAW. Here, there are some states where an employer doesn’t even have to give you ANY BREAKS AT ALL if they don’t want to.

We’re human being, not fucking slaves. We deserve down time.

According to Alex, if you’re young (which I guess is no older than mid-30s), then you’re not supposed to have a work/life balance. You’re supposed to be working 24/7, nose constantly to the grindstone, so that you can “relax” in later life on all the money you made when you were young and fresh. And hey, maybe that worked out for him and he hit it big early enough in his life that he feels secure going forward and can “relax” all he wants. Or he could be living under the delusion that his lifestyle is sustainable and end up out on his ass by the time he’s 40, stuck back at the bottom the ladder and hoping he can get back to where he was he hits retirement.

Meanwhile, in the real world, tens of millions of Americans who followed Alex’s advice early if life ended up watching their financial security flushed down the toilet in the Great Recession when those jobs they killed themselves in early life to earn disappeared and left them cashing in on what few assets they had (homes, vehicles, 401Ks, etc) just to stay afloat. And an entire generation (Millenials) spent those years when Alex thinks they should be killing themselves to make all their money either jobless or working multiple minimum wage jobs just to avoid becoming homeless. So Alex can fuck right the fuck off with that “Jeff Bezos doesn’t owe you anything” shit because Jeff happily exploited my generation’s desperation to make his money.