Are you seriously offended by this? If you were to meet these four individuals, what would you say to them? How would you react? Would you point your finger in their faces? Would you scream very loud into their eardrums? What would that really accomplish? Nothing...exactly. That's the point. What do you want from…

This might be one of the most irresponsible blogs I've ever read. Bandits are a Boston Marathon tradition. Thousands run bandit every year because they're just regular people with jobs who don't have the time to train to run a sub 3 hour marathon. I've run Boston 3 times as a bandit, but my time of 3:20 doesn't come…

Good on their coach for not ID'ing them. I have severe doubts these are the only people who did this, and naming and shaming them accomplishes what exactly? A sense of righteousness?

Man, this seriously falls under the "who gives a shit" category. They were running down some streets. You can literally do that any day of the year. They just happened to do it with a piece of paper pinned to their shirts that apparently they shouldn't have, because apparently too many people running down the street…

I'll be marking you in the lack of ethics column when it comes to what's wrong with this country.

They're running a marathon: unless they're professionals, they're all bastards. Most pretend they do it for charity as a cover for their being able to smugly walk around for months on end before and after the race.

I feel like this is all for page views. It's some kind of a deal, but it's not what it's being made out to be. And the attention Deadspin is giving to it is simply just throttling the needle in the wrong direction. So, what, you're going to out every bandit who runs now? Let's think logically about this...

EARN - or buy a charity bib for. I'll never run it without qualifying, but banditing this race is a tradition and that's exactly what happened here. I'm ok with it.

As a runner, this article bothers me. Who cares if these people ran rouge? Seeing as you don't have pictures of them with medals, are you SURE they took medals at all? I want you to find me a person that ran legitimately and didn't get a medal because they were out of them. I probably still won't care about this,…

Now you understand, in part,the opinion that many women have of themselves and other women. Bearing in mind that men find women just as attractive in cultures where women's clothing is far more practical. Women's fashion is less about pleasing men thancompeting with each other and themselves. It's intrasex warfare in…

Girls aren't the only ones who might want to see that look.

I don't think people want to "work" less so much as they want to work less and not rely on work to live. If we all worked necessary work less, humans are naturally inclined to spend their time towards other things. Mastering an art takes work, being a surgeon is work. I just don't think anyone wants their work to just…

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Uh, our unemployment rate is about the same as Australia (likely higher because we manipulate the Discouraged Worker Rate more than most other countries).

The Nordic Social Democrocies have an average unemployment rates ~ to the USA; despite having far less capital and spending…

In which countries. The difference between US and UK, Australia, Canada or Denmark is less than 1%. Germany, New Zealand and Norway all have better unemployment rates than the US and have the "freebies" you refer to. The US and UK governments believe that you need a sizeable unemployed group in order to keep the…

Mitt Romney used to have a commercial when he was running for president that ominously stated "our standard of living is falling behind other countries" and then he'd roll a list of 8 or 9 countries by really quickly. They went by fast so that the rubes who were going to vote for him wouldn't notice all the countries…

I dunno. It depends on the level of taxation of high income brackets. Right now the highest income bracket only taxes somewhere around 30-35%, with the ridiculous loophole of capital gains taxes allowing the richest to only pay about 25% in taxes.
An IMF study indicated that large income disparities are actively…

The fact that you say you don't know why people would want to work less makes me think you don't work. I like my job, but 40 hours a week is far more than enough time to spend "enjoying" it.

Seems more like it's about profits more than competition, if you can make 1 person do the work of 4 people without having to pay them differently, you've just reduced your HR costs, which depending on your industry could be a significant savings.

Americans sure aren't competitive when it comes to raising their own standard of living.

Could it not also be said that whoever is paying for the tools would expect some benefit for them/the org? So by providing more efficient tools they would not be pleased with the same output but less hours, otherwise the exercise, to them at least, would be pointless.