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The Surprising Benefits of Being Unemployed
SimuAndy writes "David Dvorkin, a programmer and writer of some repute, has published an essay on The Surprising Benefits of Being Unemployed. Well worth the reading time as a small break in a busy day."
Beware, Goatse.
Too bad this guy is an ass. The only surprising benefit I got when I lost my job was that because I had only recently moved the state of Arizona at the time I had to file for unemployment in my previous state of residence, Oklahoma. This was surprising in that I actually got more money in my checks. I lost my job when Clinton was still president and the economy was already sliding before Dubya even took office.
As for Greenspan, he decided to prematurely burst the economic bubble by raising interest rates. And all that corporate corruption and greed occurred under Clinton's watch. I voted for Dubya mainly to get back at the damned Democrats. This is their punishment for not doing anything about him (Clinton). We do need to dismiss Ashcroft, repeal the Patriot Act, and dismantle Fatherland, er I mean Homeland Security. You think the police state is bad now. Heaven help us if Hillary gets elected in 2008 and gets her hand on that apparatus. So vote for Dean or Clark in 2004.
Where is our Marshall plan for Iraq? 100 points for liberating Iraq, but -110 for screwing up the peace. Thus dragging out the economic recovery.
This is not the bitter rantings of an underemployed programmer. Oh, wait. They are. Never mind!
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
To risk sounding like Seinfeld: What is the deal with anti-capitalists? Seriously. There's so much of it rampant on slashdot and elsewhere: those evil businesses, those greedy businessmen. When confronted with the alternative, though, people rarely have the gumption to be consistent in their beliefs: Don't like 'big business'? Think everybody should have equal paying jobs? Read up on Marxism and it's success this past century. If you still think 'free enterprise sucks' then at least be logical and apply that belief to your life- move to Cuba.
Sure, I feel for anybody who doesn't have a job, but consider for a second all the people who not only have no job, but no roof over their head, no water or food- or heaven forbid- no internet access to publish essays on. Where are they? In the dictatorial, socialist, and communist countries for the most part. Clearly, if you really want to do this guy and others a favor, the right thing to do is support free enterprise.
taking out the security guard on the right.
walking forward a few hundred paces to the elevators.
blasting the guy in the elevator.
turning to the side and throwing a grenade in the meeting room.
heading up to the 3rd floor.
shooting the glass door and walking through it.
past the first few row of cubicles as those people were in accounting and were ok
hanging a left. blast off, sound off, cubicle one, two, three.
well... that's kinda creepy actually.
This is my sig.
How about spending 1/4 of that money here at home making sure US citizens have jobs?
Great Idea! Government spending is the perfect way to ensure a healthy, thriving economy!
Maybe for an encore, a bit more money could solve the drug problem, and improve student performance in our public schools!
Read some American history. Start with Nixon, and then go back to King George (18th Century).
Good advice. You should take it.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."