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But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work.

We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.

ritavonbees:

tahtherednosedtrickster:

just-shower-thoughts:

The moral of Rudolph the Red nose reindeer is that no one likes you unless you’re useful.

rudolph the red-nosed reindeer as capitalist propaganda: discuss

rudolph was already exactly as useful as the other reindeer. the moral is deviation from the norm will be punished unless it is exploitable

(via ritavonbees)

namebrandpigeon:

I’ll never forget the time I was waiting for my friend by the bathroom in the mall I watched a guy go into the men’s room empty handed, and when he came out he had an ice cream cone

(via perks-of-being-chinese)

flightcub:

*capitalist voice* well, we could make sure everyone lives comfortably, but it would make the money sad

(via overlysimplistic)