60 hrs a week? That's just slavery. This is not an enjoyable life and has to change. I just assume USA, never heard anyone working 6Ohrs a week. Unless it's one's passion and one also has no hobbies or life.

Heck, I don't even work 60 hours a year. And even those I would prefer to do other stuff.

"And when Joe looked back at the sweat upon his tracks, He had nothing to show but his age

Remember, when 'The Simpsons' first came out, a high school graduate with a blue collar job owning a house and two cars was considered normal.

The point of working that hard isn't to enjoy your life, it's so your employer can enjoy their life. They can't do that without your efforts. If you wanted to enjoy your life you should have found someone else to work for you.

This sort of thing happened in France, 1789, and a few more times over the next century.

Something, something, three skipped meals away from revolution.

It changes when we say enough

OH SAY CAN YOU SEE?

What’s the point of working this hard if you never get to enjoy your life?

Uh, look at how much money Elon has? duh.

Once you don’t need to overwork yourself just to get by, then there will be another problem to overcome. Work reform is not the only monster out there to tackle.

Namely, many modern states consider you their property:

• conscripting you by force into the military,
• forcing unreasonable taxation on you,
• suppressing your “dangerous ideology”,

… and so on.

Everything, because any of us as the individual doesn’t really matter to the “system” fronted by the politicians “we choose” and owned by the rich lobbyists. If you don’t agree to fight, then you’ll be tortured or imprisoned in a land that you probably don’t even personally care about. If you don’t pay the newly invented window tax, sausage tax, or whatever attempt to milk the common person, then they’ll make sure you’re miserable enough to fold for them.

The game was rigged from the start.

But but you can wear your hard work badge of honor and just know that because you’re not getting rewards you now have the right to make sure nobody else gets a better life either.

The current working generation (let's say millennials mostly) is being sacrificed, both for the previous and next generations to survive. Our taxes (at least in the EU) are supporting (or being collected to support in the future) both the retirement benefits of the older generation, and the benefits that young adults are getting so they don't move to other countries and leave the next generation hanging when it's their time to retire. On top of this, the system is completely unsustainable, so it's unlikely millennials will ever retire comfortably (or at all).

So yeah, I'd say that's about right. I just wish I could have some dignity in life, after all the work I put in. Enjoying is not even a goal anymore. And just wait until the job market tightens even further and starts affecting blue collar workers as it is currently affecting IT.

Yeah, not looking good. And it's a worldwide problem, unfortunately.

In other news, Mar-a-pedo burnt down this morning..