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How did Americans get so lazy?
Guest Post by Jared Dillian
It’s estimated that the average person spends only 10% of their life actually working.
What? How is that true when you work 40 out of 168 hours in a week?
Well, you don’t work until age 18 or 21, for starters, and you don’t work after age 65. If you don’t work weekends and take four weeks of vacation a year … you can see how the free time all adds up.
What I find absolutely incredible is that we have built the society by spending only 10% of our lives working. Imagine if we spent 11%!
On a micro level, most people care about three squares and a roof over their head. Doesn’t matter the profession.
LAZY OR INGENIOUS?
4 Out Of 5 Middle-Aged Brits Are Fat, Lazy Drunks; New Study Finds
by Tyler Durden
A new study just released from Public Health England concludes that 4 out of 5 Brits between the ages of 40 – 60 are fat, lazy and/or alcoholics, characteristics which the study shockingly found to be having an adverse effect on the group’s long-term health.
The study, which compared data collected from 40 – 60 year olds between 2011 – 2013 to similar data collected 20 years prior found that Brits, both men and women, were almost universally less healthy on nearly every metric tested…a fact that researchers attributed to the sedentary nature of our modern lifestyles.
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American teens refuse to get jobs
Fewer than one in three American teens gets a summer job
Paramount/ Courtesy: Everett CollectionMore teens than ever are shunning summer jobs.
The number of jobs that people ages 16 to 19 secured in May — the start of the summer hiring surge — was just 156,000, down 14% from last year, according to an analysis of government data by career outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas released this week. And last year, the number of teens who got summer jobs was nearly 11% lower than the year prior.
That’s all part of a decades-long trend in which fewer teens than ever work summer jobs: While more than half of teenagers worked summer jobs in the 1970s and 1980s, these days fewer than one in three do, according to a survey released in 2015 by the Pew Research Center.
“The general trend in summer employment among teens has been downward and that trend has been going on since the late 1970s,” said John Challenger, chief executive officer of Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
The True Cause Of Greece’s Economic Failure——An Omnivorous State, Not Lazy Workers
In the course of the Greek crisis, animosities between creditor countries like Germany and Greece didn’t take long to surface. They were fired up in the tabloid press, which was quick to revive various stereotypes. In Greece, Germans soon found themselves compared to their Nazi predecessors, while German tabloids inter alia complained sotto voce about those allegedly “lazy Southerners”.
The stereotype of “lazy Greeks”
This complaint seemed only natural, after all, everybody knows how hard-working Germany’s citizens are compared to the siesta-prone indolent slackers inhabiting assorted Mediterranean shores, right? Not so fast, said economists. OECD studies show that the average Greek worker toils for 2,017 hours per year, the by far highest figure in Europe.
More stereotyping …
HoPe DoPe
“Americans are ignorant and lazy.”–Shepard Fairey
For certain artists, ignorance and laziness makes a fine business model.–WilliamBanzai7
The CIA and Art by Miles Mathis
Creator Of Infamous “Hope” Poster Lashes Out At Obama, Calls Americans “Ignorant And Lazy”
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/30/2015 14:58 -0400
Before the people realized that behind the “most transparent administration ever” there was nothing but double seasonal adjustments, drones and an impenetrable layer of propaganda and lies, there was…
And change, of course.
Sadly, at some point over the past six years the hope died, first for the people (if not the bankers), and then for the creator of the infamous “Hope” poster himself, Shepard Fairey who told Esquire magazine in an interview that Obama has not come even close to embodying the break with the past administration that Fairey and so many voters hoped he would.
“I mean, drones and domestic spying are the last things I would have thought [he’d support].”
But support them he did while crushing the much promised transparency and freedom for the masses, for one simple reason: money, the same reason why Fairey is almost willing to give Obama a pass, again. Money, and of course, power and control of the masses by the select few.
PUTTING THE L IN LAZY
Hat tip Boston Bob
15+ People Who Took Laziness To Another Level
“I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it,” goes a quote often attributed to Bill Gates. In their search for lazy Nirvana, the people on this list have discovered brilliant ways to do as little work as humanly possible.
If you’ve got a great picture of someone being lazy, then add it to this list! Or, you know, add it tomorrow. Whatever.
ARE AMERICAN TEENAGERS JUST LAZY?
These charts are head scratchers. I had a paper route when I was 12. I started a part-time job when I was 16 and have worked ever since. The number of teens working has been falling for the last 20 years.
The number of teens with summer jobs has fallen roughly 30 percentage points since the late ‘70s. In 1978, nearly three in four teenagers (71.8%) ages 16 to 19 held a summer job, but as of last year, only about four in 10 teens did, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the month of July analyzed by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas . It’s been a steady decline, seen even during good times: During the dot-com boom in the late 1990s, when national unemployment was only about 4%, roughly six in 10 teens held summer jobs. Even recently, with the economy recovering, fewer teens opted for jobs: Last year’s summer job gain was down 3% from the summer payrolls in 2012, the report revealed.
The first chart shows the dramatic plunge from 1995 onward. Have parents become too soft and are coddling their little babies? It certainly isn’t because people’s financial situation is better than it was in 1995. Real household income is lower than it was in 1998. College tuition has skyrocketed, so you would think teenagers would need to work in order to save for college and pay for their incidentals. Has the peddling of student loans by the government made teenagers think they got found money?
The chart below would indicate that teenagers are just lazy. They don’t want to work. They just want to play video games, text, facebook and twitter. Are they just the most spoiled, coddled generation ever? We know they all get trophies no matter where they finish.
Or does this chart tell the true story? Are baby boomers refusing to leave the workforce and clogging up the traditional entry level jobs for teenagers? If you go to fast food joints these days there sure are a lot more gray hairs behind the counter. Boomers lived for today and never saved for tomorrow, so now they are taking the jobs from millenials.
I think I know the answer I’ll get from the old fogeys on this site. My teenagers are working. Based on my observations, if a kid really wants to work, they can get a job.