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I'm totally using this in my novel!
Sep. 6th, 2007 08:35 amAs if fiction writers don't already get asked enough about how autobiographical our work is....
In Other NewsTM News, a few weeks ago I was obsessed with thinking about this Fortune article about how Americans are lazy and can't compete and we don't work enough and when this article was originally posted on CNN.com, there were links on sidebars with other studies directly contradicting the article -- statistics that showed in general we are working longer hours for less money. Hello, propaganda. Especially since today, I found this: U.S. is most productive.
I'm obviously not interested in these ideas because I'm a latent economist, and no, don't worry, it's not a sign that I've been working a job in corporate america so long I'm concerning myself with management issues. I'm interested in these articles themselves, and how the story is being told to us again and again about work, and worth, and the point of life, and society v. community.
Last night at work I was telling my co-worker, the only one who I actually sort of consider a friend, about how I don't normally go to street festivals and if I do, I don't pay the suggested donation. A lawyer walked in and heard it and said, wow, Raymond, I always thought you were so rule-following. I said, "I am, but its my own set of ethics." And then after she walked away, I started on a little riff in my head about capitalism is inherently unethical (to my way of viewing the world), because even it the purest model, because even on paper it insists on people in the bottom rung, of people being impoverished. And then as I spiralled around, I thought, omg, I'm totally making a zine. But then my scanning was done and I went back to my desk.
In Other NewsTM News, a few weeks ago I was obsessed with thinking about this Fortune article about how Americans are lazy and can't compete and we don't work enough and when this article was originally posted on CNN.com, there were links on sidebars with other studies directly contradicting the article -- statistics that showed in general we are working longer hours for less money. Hello, propaganda. Especially since today, I found this: U.S. is most productive.
I'm obviously not interested in these ideas because I'm a latent economist, and no, don't worry, it's not a sign that I've been working a job in corporate america so long I'm concerning myself with management issues. I'm interested in these articles themselves, and how the story is being told to us again and again about work, and worth, and the point of life, and society v. community.
Last night at work I was telling my co-worker, the only one who I actually sort of consider a friend, about how I don't normally go to street festivals and if I do, I don't pay the suggested donation. A lawyer walked in and heard it and said, wow, Raymond, I always thought you were so rule-following. I said, "I am, but its my own set of ethics." And then after she walked away, I started on a little riff in my head about capitalism is inherently unethical (to my way of viewing the world), because even it the purest model, because even on paper it insists on people in the bottom rung, of people being impoverished. And then as I spiralled around, I thought, omg, I'm totally making a zine. But then my scanning was done and I went back to my desk.
