There has been quite a bit of study saying that in so-called subsistence cultures people spent significantly less time “working” than people in agricultural and modern societies do (besides, it’s not like we don’t spend our time meeting our basic needs now after being in an office all day)

I think 2020 has made a lot of “events coordinators” and “marketing consultants” realize that what they do is on the whole fairly useless and if their job disappeared overnight (as many have) it wouldn’t cause a blip on their company’s bottom line.

One day I imagine we will realize as a society that a good chunk of the workforce (and by extension, the economy) is based on people selling each other shit they don’t need and the whole house of cards is going to fall down.

It’s like what I always say about Labor Day...the more you actually “labor” in your job, the less likely you are to have Labor Day off.

Despite literally every company I’ve ever worked at boasting about how they promote from within, the reality is that they don’t because then they would have to train for two people in new positions instead of one and why would they want to do twice as much work?

...that’s the same day they’ll start caring about the deficit again.

I would bet he knows this whole thing doesn’t have a snowball’s chance of working and he’s just trying to pander to the base. It’s not unlike Loeffler and Perdue being all “hell yeah, $2000 stimmy checks! Vote for me!”

I feel like I have an above-average working knowledge of political processes, but can a majority leader just add stuff to a bill like that? “I’ve decided this bill now makes Donald Trump President for life! Vote on it now, assholes!”

“Do stupid things, bad things happen.” That’s how I define karma, you reap why you sow.

Well, seeing as the economy is doing so well now I guess he showed us something, didn’t he?

I don’t believe in a god but I do believe in karma.

If this guy’s first “prepper tip” wasn’t “get the hell out of NYC” they should ask for their money back.

We have learned this past year that preppers are amazingly poor at assessing actual risk.

You’re assuming it will ever be brought to the floor. Which it won’t.

Honestly, if Twitter and FB were to implode overnight I really wouldn’t shed a tear.

2020 taught us that “prepping” is nothing but fucking cosplay. The people most likely to be preppers lost their goddamn minds when they couldn’t get a haircut, how do they think they’re going to survive the collapse of civilization?

Yeah, there are a lot of people right now coming to some big realization about the nature of work when the rest of us are “you’re a marketing wonk, yeah your job isn’t essential but good on you for just figuring that out today”

It is my hope that he realizes that literally no one will be sad when he goes - that his family will probably be happier than we will be as they fight over what’s left.

If you are a Republican in 2020 the best that could be said is you are okay with institutional racism.

Yeah, I don’t know why anyone is taking this seriously, it’s just another tempt by Trump to get people to like him as he goes down in flames. I can’t honestly believe anyone thought this had even the remotest chance of happening.