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Burnout can be made a diagnosis that is treatable with drugs like anti-depressants, and spending money on medical services is just another input to our economy.

In return for your labor we give you Walmart and “Dancing With The Stars.” We tell you how productive you are and how lucky you are to be to be free. No matter which country you live in, we tell you that you live in the greatest country on Earth. We tell you how lucky you are to be born here compared to some other country, using some statistics we get whether true or not.

“Arbeit macht frei” or “work will make you free” is all that you need to know.

Hire more people you greedy bastards!

Compared to starvation from rising food prices in the third world… cry me a river.

http://climateprogress.org/2011/01/30/egyptian-tunisian-riots-food-prices-extreme-weather-and-high-oil-prices/

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I’ll tell you what the Swiss blow us away in education and finace
Well lets say we go after rich
They don’t get taxed
The have so many loop holes they don’t pay anything
Last year I personally paid more in taxes, than GE, the whole corporation
Just me

Tea Party BOUGHT AND PAID FOR BUY THESE CORPORATIONS
ITS NOT THE MEXICANS TAKING YOUR JOB ITS THE CORPORATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THAT’S WHY THEY BROKE THE UNIONS

UNIONS ARE THE ONLY VOICE YOU HAVE AGAINEST CORPORATIONS

WHY DO YOU THINK PEOPLE DIED STARTING THEM.

WHY DO YOU THINK THE MAIN STRATAGIE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS BUST THE UNIONS

SO YOU HAVE SLAVE LABOR AND 1% MAKES TRILLIONS

As a third-world resident I note: ie Asia will manage (because they know how to share) Africa is on welfare, (they can’t hook political stability to food and jobs) Europe makes it and stashes it.(“Us chickens are OK!”) Somebody is bound to figure that the world is a pie that gets sliced up into thinner pieces every day.

top exec of Nestle,Stephanie,you’re not eating enough of your own chocolate, it works for me every time. Starbucks Mocha and double fudge brownie I’m wired for 3 days.

I’ll tell you what the Swiss blow us away in education and finace
Well lets say we go after rich
They don’t get taxed
The have so many loop holes they don’t pay anything
Last year I personally paid more in taxes, than GE, the whole corporation
Just me

Tea Party BOUGHT AND PAID FOR BUY THESE CORPORATIONS
ITS NOT THE MEXICANS TAKING YOUR JOB ITS THE CORPORATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THAT’S WHY THEY BROKE THE UNIONS

UNIONS ARE THE ONLY VOICE YOU HAVE AGAINEST CORPORATIONS

WHY DO YOU THINK PEOPLE DIED STARTING THEM.

WHY DO YOU THINK THE MAIN STRATAGIE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS BUST THE UNIONS

SO YOU HAVE SLAVE LABOR AND 1% MAKES TRILLIONS

Forget the chemicals! Time to pass out baggies of the “illegal plant” (oxymoron?) and get everybody smiling, dancing, and possibly forgetting the lust for money…at least for a time. (Just like Penguins!)

One strange thing I have noticed over the years is that people always complain about Americans being lazy, yet Americans work more hours per year on average than most anyone else on the planet. I think that, however, may be the problem. People/businesses need to work together to reduce the hours so that people can rest and think and spend time with their families/friends.

I do not think it is the “money”, rather it is the stuff that money buys.

I think Google paid something like 2.4% taxes yet huge businesses whine about business taxes? There are so many loopholes, offshore bank accounts, and offshore corporate headquarters that the biggest ones always dodge them and the average/middle class businesses get hammered and of course the poor do not get anything.

If you read the article I linked, much of the problem is caused by first world life-styles (meat) driving up prices of grain and cooking oil, combined with impending climate catastrophe.

I can’t help but chuckle about how “after a brutal four days of world leaders’ speeches, schmoozing and wild parties, exhausted global delegates at the World Economic Forum were warned of the growing dangers of burnout for society.” How did they EVER survive?

Look up what NAFTA and GATT have done just as Perot warned. The Koch brothers have bought up a little over half of the Tea Party. Remember what I am telling you people: the Koch brothers believe in what is essentially a Neo-Conservative brand of libertarianism and they distance themselves from Ron Paul’s Constitutionalist Libertarianism which is better for the American people. The Kochs are to the Tea Party as Soros is to the leftist/progressive movment. Here is a great article on the topic: http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/moderate-indecisiveness/2011/jan/28/michele-bachmann-misrepresents-tea-party/

I think you would like meth better. You would get SOOOO much done.

Meth for the proletariat!

I think you would like meth better. You would get SOOOO much done.

Meth for the proletariat!

Don’t worry, those higher prices are on the way to the U.S. Gerald Celente is correct about the coming wave of violence to the U.S. due to impoverished people. It is quite frightening.

Don’t worry, those higher prices are on the way to the U.S. Gerald Celente is correct about the coming wave of violence to the U.S. due to impoverished people. It is quite frightening.

“1 in 5 are on medication in Germany”……. Go out and try to find five people in american that are not on medication.

“1 in 5 are on medication in Germany”……. Go out and try to find five people in american that are not on medication.

All I have to say is one word. ONE word will summarize the whole article

GREED

Greed is the only thing that is driving burnout, not the economy or 24 hour communications. The exploitation of the economy and 24 hour communications by greed oriented entities is the cause of our stresses. Corporations need to make more and more and more and more money. Politicians want more and more and more and more money……….All to achieve the epitome of self enrichment…………. and it never ends.

All I have to say is one word. ONE word will summarize the whole article

GREED

Greed is the only thing that is driving burnout, not the economy or 24 hour communications. The exploitation of the economy and 24 hour communications by greed oriented entities is the cause of our stresses. Corporations need to make more and more and more and more money. Politicians want more and more and more and more money……….All to achieve the epitome of self enrichment…………. and it never ends.

I vas there, and to hear nonsense about “vorker burnout” joost about make me chokes on caviar! Das serf class don’t know what das reel “vorker burnout” is! As Stephanie Pullings Hart say to AFP all da meeting was exhausting to us, all das parties and receptions, da handshakings and da chit and chat is hard vork. And we do these things four days in row! As my boy friend alvays says “Lazy American working class got us in this financial hole, with their minimum wage and union nonsense, more, more, more, me, me , me is all they know. These parasites are one notch above carjackers and arsonist”. And he shouldt know these things, he billionaire congressman!

I vas there, and to hear nonsense about “vorker burnout” joost about make me chokes on caviar! Das serf class don’t know what das reel “vorker burnout” is! As Stephanie Pullings Hart say to AFP all da meeting was exhausting to us, all das parties and receptions, da handshakings and da chit and chat is hard vork. And we do these things four days in row! As my boy friend alvays says “Lazy American working class got us in this financial hole, with their minimum wage and union nonsense, more, more, more, me, me , me is all they know. These parasites are one notch above carjackers and arsonist”. And he shouldt know these things, he billionaire congressman!

Where is the link? As a research scientist I’m interested to check out the articles, the research specializations of the authors and the specific journals. I recognize that my own capacity to critically evaluate the results is limited, given that my area is neurobiology, which is not directly relevant to climate change research. In fact, I’m often amazed at how naive people are concerning their capacity to understand and have opinions about scientific research without the requisite training. Traditionally scientists have simply done research and haven’t vigorously participated in debating popular (mis)conceptions of their results, unless the distortions are intolerable and injurious.
This is presumably why climate scientists, observing the cavalier dismissal of ill-understood results, have joined up to battle misrepresentations. Predicting the behavior of complex systems is notoriously difficult, but unless you actually understand
the nature of the models you don’t have a chance of understanding how to evaluate results/predictions. It’s ironic that those who most trust Smith’s invisible hand on economic matters, where the factors determining outcomes are idealized human behavior and, therefore, more problematic than natural factors, are so dubious about the results of models that are based on sounder considerations. This is what happens when everyone thinks that they can
have opinions about science like they can have opinions about the tastiest onions.

Where is the link? As a research scientist I’m interested to check out the articles, the research specializations of the authors and the specific journals. I recognize that my own capacity to critically evaluate the results is limited, given that my area is neurobiology, which is not directly relevant to climate change research. In fact, I’m often amazed at how naive people are concerning their capacity to understand and have opinions about scientific research without the requisite training. Traditionally scientists have simply done research and haven’t vigorously participated in debating popular (mis)conceptions of their results, unless the distortions are intolerable and injurious.
This is presumably why climate scientists, observing the cavalier dismissal of ill-understood results, have joined up to battle misrepresentations. Predicting the behavior of complex systems is notoriously difficult, but unless you actually understand
the nature of the models you don’t have a chance of understanding how to evaluate results/predictions. It’s ironic that those who most trust Smith’s invisible hand on economic matters, where the factors determining outcomes are idealized human behavior and, therefore, more problematic than natural factors, are so dubious about the results of models that are based on sounder considerations. This is what happens when everyone thinks that they can
have opinions about science like they can have opinions about the tastiest onions.

And when the Pied Pipers of that retinue have so much to gain by perpetuating the fossil fuel gluttony, eh?

And when the Pied Pipers of that retinue have so much to gain by perpetuating the fossil fuel gluttony, eh?

Media outlets expect you to simply read and accept a headline as fact.

Media outlets expect you to simply read and accept a headline as fact.

When in the script do the people wake up to this obvious fact, CL? Ever?

When in the script do the people wake up to this obvious fact, CL? Ever?

hahaha! Well done.

hahaha! Well done.

What will the elite do when all of their horses are broken down? Eat us I suppose.

Seriously, I’m starting to think our only hope for long term survival is to let it all come crashing down. Maybe something better can replace it. Stronger local communities, healthy, locally grown, living food, no stock market. We could turn back the clock and live a simpler life, but with a more enlightened populace.

What will the elite do when all of their horses are broken down? Eat us I suppose.

Seriously, I’m starting to think our only hope for long term survival is to let it all come crashing down. Maybe something better can replace it. Stronger local communities, healthy, locally grown, living food, no stock market. We could turn back the clock and live a simpler life, but with a more enlightened populace.

Earlier retirement, shorter work week, higher pay, higher taxes on the rich, better benefits including mental health, accountability and oversight for corporations, revoke the personhood of corporations, worker and consumer protections, worker and consumer socialized ownership and directorship of corporations, active labor market policy.

These are a few of my favorite things. They would also help solve this problem.

Earlier retirement, shorter work week, higher pay, higher taxes on the rich, better benefits including mental health, accountability and oversight for corporations, revoke the personhood of corporations, worker and consumer protections, worker and consumer socialized ownership and directorship of corporations, active labor market policy.

These are a few of my favorite things. They would also help solve this problem.

When asked which “sin” is the worst, I have always replied….GREED !

Greed is at the core of nearly all things bad done to mankind as it starts wit me,me,me and perpetuates all remaining “sins”.

When asked which “sin” is the worst, I have always replied….GREED !

Greed is at the core of nearly all things bad done to mankind as it starts wit me,me,me and perpetuates all remaining “sins”.

To sdlj nice try its called icecore samples they can tell exactally what was going on do you work for an oil company?
That IS sicence

To sdlj nice try its called icecore samples they can tell exactally what was going on do you work for an oil company?
That IS sicence

Who’s gonna pay for it?

Try putting that all down on businesses, and many people will close down their businesses..

No business that has half a chance of succeeding and lasting has YOUR retirement as its primary focus… Businesses that last have PROFIT and GROWTH as the primary focus..

You want a job? Well, that requires somebody to take the risk of opening and running a BUSINESS. And nobody but an IDIOT goes into business with any other motive than PROFIT.

Try reality, it’s not as bad as you were brainwashed to believe.

Who’s gonna pay for it?

Try putting that all down on businesses, and many people will close down their businesses..

No business that has half a chance of succeeding and lasting has YOUR retirement as its primary focus… Businesses that last have PROFIT and GROWTH as the primary focus..

You want a job? Well, that requires somebody to take the risk of opening and running a BUSINESS. And nobody but an IDIOT goes into business with any other motive than PROFIT.

Try reality, it’s not as bad as you were brainwashed to believe.

LOL!! I think you are right..

But you’re gonna be shocked at what you are “enlightened” to…

LOL!! I think you are right..

But you’re gonna be shocked at what you are “enlightened” to…

It really doesn’t matter, not anymore.

Everybody is about to get a serious upside-yo-head in the coming correction.. All of you will discover the holes in your theories.

By 2020 I’ll have laughed myself senseless watching the rest of you flop around out of the water of your fantasies.. It’s ok, the more of you that hold onto your desire to deny reality, the more of you that will starve out of my way.

Sure, greed is bad, mmmm’kay?

If you survive this decade, let’s see if you still sing that stupid song.

It really doesn’t matter, not anymore.

Everybody is about to get a serious upside-yo-head in the coming correction.. All of you will discover the holes in your theories.

By 2020 I’ll have laughed myself senseless watching the rest of you flop around out of the water of your fantasies.. It’s ok, the more of you that hold onto your desire to deny reality, the more of you that will starve out of my way.

Sure, greed is bad, mmmm’kay?

If you survive this decade, let’s see if you still sing that stupid song.

As an acupuncturist in Manhattan, my #1 problem I treat are stress-related musculoskeletal injuries and pain. My #2 problem are low energy/mild depression from high stress. My #3 problem I treat is nervous conditions, neuroses and panic from stress-related conditions.

This may be true in urban/suburban professionals, but I’m guessing the sequelae from bad diet and too much entertainment time causing diabetes will be the biggest near-future illnesses.

As an acupuncturist in Manhattan, my #1 problem I treat are stress-related musculoskeletal injuries and pain. My #2 problem are low energy/mild depression from high stress. My #3 problem I treat is nervous conditions, neuroses and panic from stress-related conditions.

This may be true in urban/suburban professionals, but I’m guessing the sequelae from bad diet and too much entertainment time causing diabetes will be the biggest near-future illnesses.

Nestle exec Stephanie Pullings Hart wonders how world leaders possibly cope with the stresses of 24/7 global leadership. Well duh — that one’s a no-brainer:

World leaders cope by making utterly insane decisions based on greed, power, and fear, decisions that create environmental devastation, economic collapse, and endless war.

Nestle exec Stephanie Pullings Hart wonders how world leaders possibly cope with the stresses of 24/7 global leadership. Well duh — that one’s a no-brainer:

World leaders cope by making utterly insane decisions based on greed, power, and fear, decisions that create environmental devastation, economic collapse, and endless war.

This is the absolute truth. Screaming at us every day is the war in America against labor. So few see that. Washington doesn’t want to create jobs, isn’t it obvious?

This is the absolute truth. Screaming at us every day is the war in America against labor. So few see that. Washington doesn’t want to create jobs, isn’t it obvious?

You might want to check out the work of William Howard Kunstler. You will find he’s done the research and written the books.

You might want to check out the work of William Howard Kunstler. You will find he’s done the research and written the books.

interesting, thx, but by ‘too much entertainment time’ do you mean ‘not enough exercise’?

That’s funny. You heard me say raise taxes, right? Also, early retirement would SAVE money. At the very least wages should be raised along with inflation. When adjusted, wages have been declining since the 70s. A shorter work week would not cost more money. Socialized ownership and responsibility does not cost money. You are against adequate socialized universal healthcare? Taking away corporate personhood and making them accountable is too expensive? Piss off, Republican scum.

Hey you workers the answer is, drink more of those energy beverages and for sure TAKE MORE DRUGS. Whatever you do do not…DO NOT demand anything more from the poor, put upon, owners of everything.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14837.htm

This is great news for the corporations!!

When YOU burnout they hire one of the other six people who applied for your job and as long as they can keep the unemployment level at 9+% then they can hire workers for less everytime one stresses out..

Win-Win right?

Thanks, I will.

Thanks, I will.

It’s very true. And you know what the reward is? Nothing. Not even a raise. Real wages have stagnated for DECADES when adjusted for inflation. Meanwhile, food and energy prices have skyrocketed, bankers and contractors take over the government, corporate executives ship jobs overseas by the thousands per month, and wars kill thousands of our loved ones and do incalculable damage to innocents.

Workers need to democratize and organize. New companies are being formed that give all workers a say and a vote in what goes on in the business. Doing this might tame corporations a bit and spur innovation at the same time. Good deal I think.

It’s very true. And you know what the reward is? Nothing. Not even a raise. Real wages have stagnated for DECADES when adjusted for inflation. Meanwhile, food and energy prices have skyrocketed, bankers and contractors take over the government, corporate executives ship jobs overseas by the thousands per month, and wars kill thousands of our loved ones and do incalculable damage to innocents.

Workers need to democratize and organize. New companies are being formed that give all workers a say and a vote in what goes on in the business. Doing this might tame corporations a bit and spur innovation at the same time. Good deal I think.

No, it’s the power. “Money to get power. Power to protect money.” (Medici family motto)

No, it’s the power. “Money to get power. Power to protect money.” (Medici family motto)

You socialist twerps aren’t qualified to run a popsicle stand, the soviet union was proof of how well you clowns can run industry.

A shorter work week would cost a FORTUNE in lost production.. The fact you can’t see that shows how silly your idiotic socialist theories are.

“Adequate” and socialized medicine are two words that can never be brought together by anybody who doesn’t enjoy telling bald-faced lies.

As far as that socialized ownership stupidity, once again, check out the soviets, or how about north korea, and cuba? Wow, they are just AWESOME places, aren’t they?

Screw the republicans, they are just as socialist as you are, only they call their fake productive capacity “defense”…

I’m a proud anarcho-capitalist, and YOU can piss off, national socialist(AKA: nazi) scum.

You socialist twerps aren’t qualified to run a popsicle stand, the soviet union was proof of how well you clowns can run industry.

A shorter work week would cost a FORTUNE in lost production.. The fact you can’t see that shows how silly your idiotic socialist theories are.

“Adequate” and socialized medicine are two words that can never be brought together by anybody who doesn’t enjoy telling bald-faced lies.

As far as that socialized ownership stupidity, once again, check out the soviets, or how about north korea, and cuba? Wow, they are just AWESOME places, aren’t they?

Screw the republicans, they are just as socialist as you are, only they call their fake productive capacity “defense”…

I’m a proud anarcho-capitalist, and YOU can piss off, national socialist(AKA: nazi) scum.

Shorter work week does not mean no one works on Fridays. It means everyone works 20 or 30 or so hours a week and the rest of the required labor time is filled by hiring another person. That means it reduces unemployment, too. (See: http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/21-hours)

Marxism does not equal Bolshevism. There is more than one form of communism/whatever just as there is more than one form of capitalism, as you are apparently aware.

You should probably turn off that Mises.org crap and check out some Chomsky.info or DavidHarvey.org for a while, okay, Mr. Tea Patriot?

I’ve got a quibble. Why is there a picture of a stock broker instead of a McJob-er?

Is it me, or is there an overabundance of sanctimonious business owners out there? I mean, yeh, profit is the motive. But do you have to be a troll to your employees. My business thrives with millions of revenue and I have the greatest crew in the world. I am not one to believe for a second that treating my employees like slaves would ever get me anything but mediocre product. What is it with the cruelty?

I will ask you again:

Where does the damned wealth come from to pull that off? More employees equal higher expenses, especially the way you want them paid and covered.. That would BANKRUPT any company. I don’t run a business so you can have a job, I run it to gain WEALTH.. I don’t serve you, and you only work for me. You’re free to quit anytime you want. I’m free to fire you any time I want.. I would NEVER employ somebody outside of a right-to-work state, that’s why there are LESS jobs in business unfriendly areas(DUH!!!)…

Sorry to have to burst your child’s innocence about reality, but in the real world there is no free lunch, somebody always ends up paying.

It is painfully obvious you have never started, ran, then grown a successful business.. At least not one that actually produced anything. Like I said, you socialists couldn’t successfully run a popsicle stand.

It really doesn’t matter, by 2020 anybody left alive will only enjoy that condition if they are or at some point converted into anarcho-capitalists. Nothing like starvation to make you get real.

When you finally get hungry, let’s see you argue your theory with your growling gut.

And you still got it wrong(you are probably used to that), the tea party is about as useful as Vaseline in the hands of an epileptic.. Why don’t you grow up and get productive, okay Mr. social parasite?

Have a nice morning!! Gotta go, some of us have businesses to run, even at these small hours of the morning!! I’m sure you also have much productivity to attend to…

“Under-cover Boss”,,Now here is a program that is so filled with propaganda and blatant non-sense,,,But some of the American People just think it’s so peachy…We are just so fortunate to have a caring CEO as portrayed on this Fantasy program…Is Wall St types projected to appear on this charade ? Is Hedge fund managers also in the line-up ?…Big Oil,,,Big Banks,,,Big Federal Reserve,,,Big Treasury,,,Big US Chamber of Commerce,,,Big Supreme Court,,,Big Tea Party,,,Big Republican Party,,,Big Fox Noise ETC………………………Charles Belenchia

Right on Brother,,,Is it something in our water or those Flu-shots that makes Americans just a bit more gullible and un-informed ?………………………

Just to true for words,,,What is going on in Egypt today could very well happen here in the next 10 years if we continue with TAX breaks for the wealthy,,,Citazens United case is allowed to stand,,,26 lobbyists for every member of Congress,,,Senate owner-ship,,Im surprised Senate influence programs are not traded as a commodity on Wall St,,,Chaney,,,Rove,,,Gonzales (former AG–USA),,,Bush can and do what-ever they please and smile at the American People as a bunch of Sports fanatics,,,Dancing with the Morons,,,Reality,,Un-reality,,,made up garbage tv shows loving people.

Hahaha… Oh, wow. Did you see that? The capitalist called me a parasite!
“I don’t serve you, and you only work for me.”
>YOU WORK FOR ME
If the capitalist owns the business, the workers are doing the work for the capitalist.
If the workers own the business, they are doing the work for themselves.

I know you won’t, but please read Marx’s Capital. Seriously. You might learn something. At the very least, you might figure out what Marxist theory actually IS, so that you can argue against it properly. Better give the anarcho-socialist stuff a shot too, for the same reasons. Couldn’t hurt, right?

Free lunch? Why would lunch be “free”? Our taxes pay for that. When gross inequalities produced by rigged markets are eliminated, taxes would be shared pretty much equally. Do criminals get to keep their wealth when their operations are shut down? No, that money is confiscated and goes toward benifiting the community the criminals were hurting (in theory). Taxing the wealthiest 1% (probably not you, in case you didn’t notice…) is no different. A robust public option would be a public OPTION. It could be paid for by taxing only those who use it (assuming corrective measures have already reduced inequality to the point where we no longer need to tax the rich to reduce it further). The same can go for all other government services (on a service-by-service basis), which would make it entirely voluntary, which would make me an anarchist, which would be something you – as an anarcho-capitalist – could get behind, eh? Or is a group of people voluntarily pooling their resources to their mutual benefit somehow against your “anarcho-capitalist” philosophy?

I am sorry I called you a Tea Partier. It was an insult to Tea Partiers.
Oh, and Ayn Rand called, she would like you to stop stealing her ideas, you dirty second-hander, you. That’s right, I got you pegged this time… Your post history is gushing with Randspeak.
Yeah, talk to you later, it’s been fun.

Yeah, we do seem to live for the sole purpose of work and unfortunately that work is providing fewer means to a satisfactory life as wages stagnate. I’m waiting for a corporation to implode from pushing employees to far and not paying enough for employees to buy enough goods to keep this whole pyramid from crumbling.

These rich people are insane, literally.
OK you want it all and your just about there
So what, you want to be a rich person in a poor country, like Mexico?
Go to Mexico City and live there for awhile and see how much you like it.
You live in a guilded cage
Everyone hates you and your kids
And you have to have 24/7 security, and they still kidnap you
Boy great game plan !!!!!!!!!

To all those Rich people out there I would be supporting social programs, supporting the unions for a strong middle class.
Pay a living wage, so then you don’t have to worry about going to the super market or going anywhere

WHO WANTS TO BE A RICH MAN IN A POOR COUNTRY? I ask you, only the sick.

“How the world leaders cope with the stress is beyond me.”

It is not beyond me.

World economic leaders do not arrive home from work to realize they forgot to change five dollars into quarters for the laundry, then go back out to do so.

They spend a few hundred thousand dollars for membership, $19,000 per ticket to Davos, take time from work, (what is more, consider the chance over-heard statement at a conference worth leaving work, or, part of work) and schmooze with others chasing their fortunes, not mining salt to pay a mortgage, a car payment, a student loan.

They don’t even drive themselves. Ever not driven a car for a month or few? One discovers a level of stress is gone, that one did not realize it had been so much nor how seamlessly integrated into life it had become.

Incidentally, ever been in a helicopter or a private jet or, been in them enough to have a favorite type?

Davos attendees, many of these people have long since made more money than every dime every one of our family members and ancestors have earned since the first set foot on American shores. A billionaire earns that figure in days.

I am not arguing they do not deserve it or have not earned it, or whatever, not going into that, but am pointing out a particular aspect of Davos-level wealth.

Once you are ‘set for life’ (that is, no matter what happens to you, you and all those you care about will be economically secure and end yours and their years in dignity) the world appears a different kind of place, and this is reflected in every aspect of your life right down to your cell structure.

The common anxieties that drag along with us 99% like Jacob Marley’s chains, those we see the symptoms of and sympathize with in everyone we know and meet, the simple question ‘what will become of me?’, are soothed to a placid non-existence by great money.

Once one has money enough to enable the choice to have a bonfire of it yet remain wealthy, the things one comes to call stress, long hours before a product roll-out or, acquiring companies and doing a great merger or, conquering markets overseas, is only a faint, friendly shadow of the thing we call stress.

here is a subject that I personally can comment about. I visited my children at Christmas time this year in the Seattle, WA area . My two daughters and there husbands work for Microsoft. Here it is the holiday season Im visiting from Arizona and all they were doing most of the time is working on there Laptops. I said hey cant you take some time off for the holidays and the response was Dad we have deadlines to meet. im just glad im retired.

[...] Immigration stress fuels global burnout crisis January 31, 2011 http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/worker-burnout-warnings-spread-world-economic-forum/ [...]

After a brutal four days of world leaders’ speeches, schmoozing and wild parties, exhausted global delegates at the World Economic Forum were warned of the growing dangers of burnout for society.

The opening paragraph says it all. They schmooze, get drunk and high and screw each other (physically) while screwing the rest of us economically, financially and in every other way. Still, the situation in Egypt has caught them by surprise. Imagine that!

If you read again the opening paragraph of the article, you will see how they cope with our stress

Is it me, or is there an overabundance of sanctimonious business owners out there?

No, it’s only 1% of them, that’s the sad part, look at how they’re screwing the other 99%.

America is rapidly heading to the bottom for quality of life. If you think your bottom feeder version of America can sustain itself you are quite wrong. And for socialist countries try substituting Finland, Germany, and France instead of dictatorships, all countries with a better quality of life than the U.S.A. Our medical care rates worse than every western democracy when it used to be among the best. I can tell you why in one word: insurance.

Sounds a lot like what Democratic Socialism (Bernie Sanders-types like me) would have for American workers and yet capitalism greed still reigns supreme.

Working Models for more pay for fewer hours: http://www.timesizing.com/1cases.htm

Poor things, forced go to all those receptions and parties. I feel so sorry for the wealthy bastards.

The one thing that program does truthfully show is how completely incompetent most of these CEOs are when it comes to doing the average persons job. I watched one guy that couldn’t screw a screw into a piece of sheetrock. This makes me wonder exactly how much brainpower one actually has to have to become a CEO in America.

The Soviet Union was not socialist. When the elite controls all the means of production, like in the U.S. and the former Soviet Union, it’s not socialist. In a truly socialist society, the worker owns the means of production. Today, Venezuela is the model to look at although the final goal is not yet achieved. http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_61997.shtml

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwhau48LUAA

P.S. Nazis were right wing capitalists. Socialists are lefties.

The problem is unemployment not burnout you assholes.

WHERE ARE THE JOBS ?

The objective of the mainstream DIVERSIONARY press is to keep the real news about the lack of job creation, the falling standard of living and skyrocketing poverty out of the news.

The biggest news story in the history of this country (america) is the end of job creation.

If you had a media that reported REAL news you would see stories about that every week.

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Zero Job Creation in the last 11 years

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/01/AR2010010101196.html

http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/2009/06/a_lost_decade_f.html

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/01/09/bush-on-jobs-the-worst-track-record-on-record/

Many employers are cynical, have it ass backwards and believe that if you are not a troll to your employees then they will not work hard and you’ll get a mediocre product.

“Stress” is the medical condition they define you as having when the medical profession no longer works. Right now a plague of illnesses is wiping out friends, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, lyme are the vague diagnosis after the illness becomes too severe to define as stress. Our medical system no longer has the will or desire to deal with illness that can’t be quickly and profitably dealt with. Twenty five percent of my friends are ill with undiagnosed conditions (some of the severely with organ failure) Very close number to that one in five in Germany.

“When you finally get hungry, let’s see you argue your theory with your growling gut.”

When people get hungry they go after their rich oppressors, the ones that exploited them so they could become rich. The ones whose policies make them hungry. The French revolution is a prime example of this.

I’ve heard it said that there is no look dumber than that of a rich mans head on a steel pike. My guess is that it wont be too long before we’ll find out first hand if that saying is true or not…

Its time for the 20 hour work week. Reduce stress and unemployment at the same time. Might also free people up for more civic engagement.

the purpose of life is to enjoy….. guardiansofrecreation.com

the purpose of life is to enjoy….. guardiansofrecreation.com

Those with jobs are being asked to shoulder the work load of two, three and four people. So the employed are overworked, and the unemployed are shit out of luck.

I guess the Corporations will have to be more careful about the extent to which they exploit their workers.

The problem is that profits are up and the workforce is down. All these companies figured out they can get the same production with less employees.They’ll never go back.

Honestly, I think is a real issue. Many of those who are now fortunate enough to work have employers who imply “they are lucky to have a job”. It doesn’t matter if they are good employees or not. This in turn creates an atmosphere that anyone is disposable at any moment. Employers see they can do more $$ for less, and get more focused on $$ than retention. Employees feel less connected to their job and no loyalty in this type of environment…which seems is everywhere. In the long run, a less motivated employee can window dress things to look like they are being productive, but if they are not happy, it’s still only 50% of what they would do if they felt more secure….but employers don’t seem to care.

The American business model is almost all about numbers. Quality of service (and everyone knows this) is down. You can only get so much out of a human being.

Though unemployment is a huge problem so is burnout. My last employer, as a “global” company, expected their employees to work around the clock. With layoffs twice a year the remaining employees were always afraid to not be available for around the clock utilization. What I observed was this, the company lays people off and the people that kept their jobs got their workload increased. The same amount of work existed but they just kept squeezing more and more out of the staff and believe me, the pressure of fearing job loss and an ever-increasing workload does lead to burnout. It’s all messed up.

Though unemployment is a huge problem so is burnout. My last employer, as a “global” company, expected their employees to work around the clock. With layoffs twice a year the remaining employees were always afraid to not be available for around the clock utilization. What I observed was this, the company lays people off and the people that kept their jobs got their workload increased. The same amount of work existed but they just kept squeezing more and more out of the staff and believe me, the pressure of fearing job loss and an ever-increasing workload does lead to burnout. It’s all messed up.

One reason for high unemployment is that employers like to lay off workers but still expect the same amount of work to get done. As business picks back up employers do not like to hire new workers so the people who still have jobs have to pick up the slack.

I saw this in my last job. As business slowed they shed workers. At first it was the less productive people who went and some tasks were eliminated. As the economy kept sliding there was more pressure to reduce costs, meaning round after round of layoffs and spending cuts. Each cycle cut further into the core of really good people. Those who remained were expected to pick up the slack. At the same time wages were frozen and long time perks that once made working for the company a joy were eliminated. So you had a condition where you had lost your friends at work, you had more to do, fewer opportunities to enjoy your job and the financial rewards were less.

Eventually I was caught in the last round of cuts. I was 62 years old at the time and retirement was already within reach. Being laid off was actually a relief.

Most of my former coworkers who had good skilled jobs with decent middle class wages before found themselves taking new jobs at less pay doing jobs that didn’t utilize their skills.

When my old company does bring in new help they bring in temp workers who get no benefits. In fact some of their old full time employees are now back doing their old jobs as lower paid temps. One big advantage to this for the employer is that they can shed these workers at any time. Temps are as disposable as tissue paper to a company.

Yes, stress among the still employed is high.

One reason for high unemployment is that employers like to lay off workers but still expect the same amount of work to get done. As business picks back up employers do not like to hire new workers so the people who still have jobs have to pick up the slack.

I saw this in my last job. As business slowed they shed workers. At first it was the less productive people who went and some tasks were eliminated. As the economy kept sliding there was more pressure to reduce costs, meaning round after round of layoffs and spending cuts. Each cycle cut further into the core of really good people. Those who remained were expected to pick up the slack. At the same time wages were frozen and long time perks that once made working for the company a joy were eliminated. So you had a condition where you had lost your friends at work, you had more to do, fewer opportunities to enjoy your job and the financial rewards were less.

Eventually I was caught in the last round of cuts. I was 62 years old at the time and retirement was already within reach. Being laid off was actually a relief.

Most of my former coworkers who had good skilled jobs with decent middle class wages before found themselves taking new jobs at less pay doing jobs that didn’t utilize their skills.

When my old company does bring in new help they bring in temp workers who get no benefits. In fact some of their old full time employees are now back doing their old jobs as lower paid temps. One big advantage to this for the employer is that they can shed these workers at any time. Temps are as disposable as tissue paper to a company.

Yes, stress among the still employed is high.

I’m going to do it!

I’m going to do it!

You said it all.

You said it all.

Typical CEOs aren’t capable of doing the types of tasks the people who work for them and who actually run their companies do. The job of a CEO requires a different level of intelligence and manual dexterity then the job of building a house, installing a toilet, writing computer code or assembling a car does.

On the other hand, most of the people who actually do the work of running and building this society wouldn’t make good CEOs. That too requires a specialized mind.

Specifically I believe a good CEO must be at least somewhat of a Sociopath. The need to be able to negotiate deals that that may do harm to other people and not feel the least bit guilty requires a specialized mind. They also need to be able to justify their own huge salaries to themselves while at the same time making sure the people who actually make their companies operate don’t get paid “too much”. I for one could never lay off hundreds of people or force my employees to live on small salaries while my company was earning millions and I was being rewarded with a huge salary.

Typical CEOs aren’t capable of doing the types of tasks the people who work for them and who actually run their companies do. The job of a CEO requires a different level of intelligence and manual dexterity then the job of building a house, installing a toilet, writing computer code or assembling a car does.

On the other hand, most of the people who actually do the work of running and building this society wouldn’t make good CEOs. That too requires a specialized mind.

Specifically I believe a good CEO must be at least somewhat of a Sociopath. The need to be able to negotiate deals that that may do harm to other people and not feel the least bit guilty requires a specialized mind. They also need to be able to justify their own huge salaries to themselves while at the same time making sure the people who actually make their companies operate don’t get paid “too much”. I for one could never lay off hundreds of people or force my employees to live on small salaries while my company was earning millions and I was being rewarded with a huge salary.

http://www.wireless-precaution.com/main/science.php
http://fullsignalmovie.com/trailer-credits.html

http://www.wireless-precaution.com/main/science.php
http://fullsignalmovie.com/trailer-credits.html

As I said above, I believe too many successful CEOs are actually Sociopaths. Perhaps CEOs and other high power people (Senators? Popes? Dictators?) gravitate towards those positions that are well suited for someone with that specific mental disorder.

The rest of us are condemned to live forever under the yoke of various Sociopaths.

As I said above, I believe too many successful CEOs are actually Sociopaths. Perhaps CEOs and other high power people (Senators? Popes? Dictators?) gravitate towards those positions that are well suited for someone with that specific mental disorder.

The rest of us are condemned to live forever under the yoke of various Sociopaths.

Worker burnout warnings spread across World Economic Forum | Raw Story…

Here at World Spinner we are debating the same thing……

Rats exposed to radiation in the 2 Ghz band have been shown to develop substantially elevated levels of cortisol (the stress hormone). They’re also substantially stupider than non-exposed rats (as measured by performance in a water maze).

This is the same type of radiation that wireless technology uses to function. Our average exposure to it (since the wireless revolution) is now hundreds of millions of times natural background levels.

http://prove-it.co/content/symptoms
http://www.wireless-precaution.com/main/science.php
http://fullsignalmovie.com/trailer-credits.html

Welcome to the world of unfettered free market capitalism where we all must perform at our peak levels to create the absolutely most wealth for the people who toss us our meager bones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5rcnAWaC64&feature=player_embedded#

We live in a society where Darwinian “Survival of the fittest” rules. If you can’t keep up, then you should just become extinct like the mastodon.

noone will take you seriously if you keep worshiping ron paul

the man is not sane

and the ron pauls of the world want to make it even worse

30.4 days off??? Where do they get that kind of time to be sick?? I am allowed a maximum of five sick days per year before I get written up.

And yes, burnout is a real phenomenon. Things have gotten so bad at my job (which is still better than many other places, depressingly) that I have come to hate going to work. And I’m not alone. Many of my coworkers express the exact same sentiment. Including some that are lower management. And the worst part is I work for a supposed ‘non profit’ organization.

I’ve actually been told that by my supervisor, no implications about it.

hilarious how simplified of a world you right wingers live in

everything is not black or white, even if your binary brain cannot comprehend it

At my job every time someone leaves they post the job as a part time or pool job. That way they don’t have to pay benefits. I’d love to transfer to another dept but I can’t lose benefits that way.

Exactly, because we are much further down the road of the greedy class whipping the soul out of it’s workforce. Germany still has some of its social democracy left.

Yep, all the non-profits out there doing things to help others without a profit motive, those are all IDIOTS.. right?

Very good comment and video, it’s grotesque to have corporations making the most money they have ever made in 60 years, and at the same time have all time high unemployment, and people losing their house, jobs, and way of living, a total assault on the middle class!

You’re wasting your time.. You’re talking to someone that doesn’t understand the difference between “communistic dictatorship” and “democratic socialism”.. And it’s someone that clearly feel they are vastly superior to all other people and that other people deserve to be a slave to them allowing them to live like a god even if their workers can’t feed their families.

I chased away one troll that suggested Singapore is a great “free market model” when I looked it up and explained how Singapore makes 60% of it’s GDP from government owned production and had single payer universal health care. The last response I got was “well, Singapore has some issues, but”. .. wow..

People like this will 100% of the time fail to understand that we HAVE the resources on the planet, and we have people willing to contribute who aren’t going to demand to live like gods for their effort. But since they are selfish, greedy, ignorant little pricks, they can’t get their heads around the concepts. … change will come, our current system is massively flawed and not sustainable. The only question is, how much longer will the few brutalize the masses before it all comes crashing down.

http://www.zeitgeistmovingforward.com … good stuff.

Very good comment and video, it’s grotesque to have corporations making the most money they have ever made in 60 years, and at the same time have all time high unemployment, and people losing their house, jobs, and way of living, a total assault on the middle class!

“When you finally get hungry, let’s see you argue your theory with your growling gut.”

Good luck running a business when thousands of people with hungry guts storm your business looking for food. … Oh, right.. you got guns and will just let the corpses pile up outside your front door.. good luck getting customers in then!

it will never cease to amaze me how some people want to undo 10s of thousands of years of civilization in the making; wanting to pretend they can make it on their own without the contributions of the greater society.

Most of the rich here in America (the really really rich) have homes in “socialist” countries as well. They aren’t planning on living here once it all falls apart. They will leave it all to the guys like seen2much, who will find it hard to have a profitable business with corpses piling up around his store as he shoots them all (he’s told us before he’s well armed and well stocked).

These people really are sick and broken human beings.

Almost all about numbers? It’s 100% about the numbers. Spreadsheet data, labor hours, clock in/clock out times, all geared to make sure a worker is way under the magical number “40″. No one is secure because they’re fearful hours will be cut to make labor look good on paper. As for retention, most people I know would sell body parts and leave in a NY minute if they could find a job offering 40 hours or more a week. You’re absolutely right they’re not happy and haven’t known bliss in the workforce for many years. Forget about worker loyalty, there is no human connection with management anymore. One is a cog in a wheel, nothing more.

But if the average American worker gets rest and time to spend with family and friends then the employer will most likely deal with someone who might find a little time to educate themselves. Someone who’ll read everything they can get their hands on, who’ll decide not to blindly follow FOX news, CNN, MSNBC and actually think for themselves. Nah. It’s better for the employer that the American worker be perceived as lazy because perceptions have a way of sinking into the minds of fellow Americans who have a little something laid away for the future. Haven’t you heard other Americans denigrating the so-called welfare moms and “those lazy, lazy people” who have the nerve to panhandle, or collect unemployment? We are a nation divided and the employers like it just fine.

Ask not what your employee can do for YOU but what YOU can do for your employee. If you are using up the best part of an employees life to help you, then it seems reasonable that you should want to compensate that employee for what you take from him or her. The success of a business is largely dependant upon the efforts of employees is it not? This should not be too complex to understand especially for those who ever went to Sunday school. Are business school teachings responsible for transforming this simple ethical & moral logic into the bottom line free market model? If so, maybe we should start examining just what IS taught in our institutions of higher learning rather than devoting our resources always on lower education. It appears that “Race To The Top” may be abruptly stopped in business schools & sent back down to our base instincts of selfish greed. If the U.S.of A. must be labelled, (hypocritically), “a Christian nation”, how come we are content to act so un-Christian?

“The risk of opening up a business”. Only the employers take on risk, right? No risk on the part of the poor employee who never knows when his job will be outsourced, his hours cut, who is earning too low a wage to buy food or college or health care or keep up house payments, etc. As usual, selfish employer thinks all the risk is his. The perpetual mantra of selfish business types who care only about their bottom line & will screw their workers in any way they can get away with in order to reap benefits for themselves.
Just where did you learn this lesson, in Sunday School or Business School: How to Exploit Workers For Your Benefit 201?

It’s not the work, it’s the uncertainty that pervades the public dialogue.

It’s not the work, it’s the uncertainty that pervades the public dialogue.

Hey cool I didn’t know there was a new Zeitgeist out. Thanks!

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