Author: Olivia

Office job – I sit down at 7:45 AM and besides my half hour break – I type without pause until 5 PM. And that I do 4 days a week. At Friday I go home at 3 PM – thats the only luxury I have. I dont even know what I am doing – but I have to work and type nonstop or otherwise I fall behind. I probably do the amount of work you would have needed 4-5 people 40 years ago (because of no Computers and tools), yet I have more work stress than ever. I cant fathom that I am 4-5x more productive than the people of the 80s yet I work more than them and have more stress then them. Because pretty much every time a Boomer or X-ler of that time tells stories – work seemed to be so much more relaxed. How the…

Most companies do everything the law allows them to do. If tomorrow the law allowed them to hire 9 year olds full time and chain them to desk, they would. If tomorrow the law allowed them to enslave people, they would. If tomorrow the law allowed them to pimp out their employees, they would. The root of this problem is that public companies would be REQUIRED to do these things as a fiduciary duty to shareholders and private companies probably just would for their own greed. ​ We are literally (in the classical sense) just inputs to the process, thats all.