Winning is relative : memes

[–] Robdor@lemmy.world 272 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I prefer co-op games like the James Webb telescope. Thanks ESA for a perfect launch.

[–] PenguinJuice@kbin.social 128 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm a simple man, I see actual accomplishments of mankind being mentioned and I upvote.

Line go up is for smooth brained animals.

Rocket go up is for true gentlemen.

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[–] Skaryon@lemmy.world 270 points 2 years ago (11 children)

I love how in every topic about WFH there's some dudebro going on about the economy suffering due to supposed lessened productivity and I'm like... Why should I care?

[–] tyo_ukko@sopuli.xyz 136 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't you even think about the billionaires, bro?

[–] silent2k@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago

Less trickling down for me

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 96 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I love the abstract “productivity”.

Like yo, cancer is incredibly productive.

Demolishing subsistence farms and replacing them with cash crop slave plantations is mad profitable.

I could make thousands of dollars in a day if I just sold everything I own.

Our metrics of economic growth revolve around basically doing all of the above, to varying degrees of figurative vs. literal-ness.

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 57 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

People have been told their entire lives that the GDP of their nation matters without ever considering what it actually represents, or how it actually went up.

Great, number go up, but why and who actually benefitted.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago

The 1%. Productivity has been going through the roof, wages have stagnated for decades.

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[–] Kalkaline@lemmy.one 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You should care because that profit should be going to the workers who create the value. It doesn't go to the workers, so you should continue not caring about productivity. Damn the man.

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[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 144 points 2 years ago (7 children)

There's no Americans bragging about that. Corporations and the government, sure. The rest of us are to busy living in pain

[–] Philipp@lemmy.loomy.li 61 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Some years ago I were in US on vacation and a Cadillac commercial said you shouldn't buy cars made by lazy people wo have 4 weeks vacation every year, instead you should buy an American car.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 45 points 2 years ago

you should buy a car assembly someone who is absolutely exhausted and has exactly no reason to give a fuck. Because freedom.

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[–] ColonelSanders@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Right? I was like, "Who the fuck in the US is saying ANY of that?"

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[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.org 130 points 2 years ago (12 children)

God please let me move to Europe I don't even care what language I have to learn I just wanna be able to live without worrying about affording a doctor appointment.

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 70 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Sprich Deutsch du Hurensohn.

[–] MrMagnesium12@feddit.de 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's ich_iel spirit.

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[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 121 points 2 years ago (8 children)

lower unemployment

Doesn't matter, I can only have two, maybe three jobs at once so any more than that is irrelevant to me

higher growth

I get the same $8/hr whether the GDP goes up, stays the same or goes down. You can't leave workers out of the distribution of wealth and then pretend that more wealth is good for workers

[–] UristMcHolland@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago

Don't worry about it man. You are missing the point. Look at how many billionaires we have now! All that money is going to trickle down any time now!

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 24 points 2 years ago (4 children)

But your billionaires get richer more quickly than ours! Isn't that something to be proud of?

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[–] krist2an@lemm.ee 76 points 2 years ago (40 children)

Don't want to brag, but I took my compulsory 2-week vacation in July. I'm having another week of vacation in the middle of August and I'm taking a whole month off in the middle of October when my second child is born (dad-vacation, in addition to the 18 months that the mom has as paid maternity leave). Oh and all of this is fully paid.

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[–] Heikki@lemm.ee 73 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I recall going to the UK after brexit, to a house party with family friends. I was hounded with how do you function with only a 2 week holiday. I then shared i had 4 weeks after 5 years. They were so confused that we could function with less than 6 weeks of vacation.

Burn out in the USA is a real thing. Our politicians will never vote for a mandatory vacation for anyone other than them selves

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's amazing how submissive American men are.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If there's one thing I've learned from Grindr it's that all Republicans are bottoms that think they're tops.

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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 60 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It took me way too long to realize chasing a high pay, high stress career wasn't worth it. I envied my friends and family for being able to enjoy weekends, evenings, and holidays when I couldn't. I missed my best friends bachelor party, I missed Christmas and New Years parties. If i didnt miss them entirely i would show up late or leave early from every occasion. I realized I was going to reach the end of life never having lived it.

[–] KeyserSoze61@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Yup, I gave up my 70 hour work weeks. My 50 hour weeks grew my salary and position, then my 60 hour weeks put me in charge of massive projects, which drove me to 70 hours during a couple ERP implementations. I took a paycut overall, but now I work 40 hours.

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[–] produnis@discuss.tchncs.de 50 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Does everyone have healthcare?

[–] KeyserSoze61@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For a meager $18000/year with copays and premiums. Murica!

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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As an american, who gives a shit about all that stuff when your family savings can be wiped out, home foreclosed upon, and bankrupted just because you get sick or suffer an injury!? Even if you plan and do everything right, it could still happen to you, through no fault of your own.

So, IMO until we have universal healthcare like every other modern nation, they all beat us...

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[–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I used to work for a French company. My colleagues in France would take the whole damn month of August off, and then complain that North Americans never worked.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 59 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

TBF my experience with Japanese and American workers is that you spend a lot of time in the office, but aren't particularly productive. Hardly surprising, given there's loads of evidence that suggests a strict enforcement of leisure time, actually increases productivity.

No one works at 100% if they work 70 hours a week and check their emails during the weekend.

Or as I once put it to a boss, when he asked me why I was leaving the office at 1700 on the dot, I finish my work in 8 hours, my colleagues need 9.

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[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry, didn't see your email cos it's actually fuckin illegal to send me it if I'm not working

[–] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 62 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It can't be illegal to send you an email outside working hours, that's just silly. Now if it's illegal to demand that you read it and respond outside working hours, I would understand.

[–] bpeu@sh.itjust.works 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Sending an email to the wrong person at 17:01? You go to jail.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You send an email outside of work hours? Jail.

You hand-deliver a letter during work hours? Also jail.

We have the best work-life balance in the world. Because of jail.

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[–] chili1553@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm definitely cutting off my nipples this summer

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[–] rickdg@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

But the real killer is average life expectancy.

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