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'Productivity Is Dangerous' (theoutline.com)
Vincent Bevins, writing for The Outline: So every morning, I get messages asking me to click through to articles like "How I Optimized My Morning Routine To Get More Done Than ever -- before 8 a.m.!" The people posting links like this have a sickness, and we need to stop it before it gets out of hand. Of course, if you actually click through to this trash, it's a bit shocking to see what they actually do. Some guy is proud that he set aside his social life so that he could unleash four extremely psychologically damaging apps on the world by the age of 30. Or it's like, "Congratulate Lisa on her new job as advertising director for Nestle in Africa." Here's a productivity idea: Just, fucking, don't make shitty apps, or do advertising for Nestle, or really for anything. I often see shit like, "Ten Habits I Have QUIT to Get More Done," and I think, "Maybe quit writing posts like this." If you're waking up at 4 a.m. to write 1,000 words about how you write 1,000 words every day, what are you actually getting done? Just stay in bed. Whenever I am back in the Protestant centers of modern capitalism (New York or London, basically), it's especially jarring to remember what it feels like to treat being busy as if it were a virtue.
It is the most productive use you will ever find for your time.
First law of people: People are generally stupid.
Don't get me wrong, I think everyone needs to enjoy life, as that work isn't the ONLY thing in life, and it shouldn't define you.
That being said, however.....there is NOTHING wrong with trying to make your work life as productive as possible. To do your best and to maximize your money making is a good thing to strive for!!!
This guff right here in this article, putting down work ethic, etc...sounds very millennial snowflake-ish.
I guess it is another one expecting a trophy for doing little more than showing up to work....occasionally.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
"You very quickly get people manufacturing needs and faking their hard work under communism."
Sure, capitalism doesn't have anybody manufacturing needs and faking their hard work.
Except, in the world's capitalist bastion (the USA) research suggests anybody who says they work more than 40 hours a week is lying, most white collar workers actually do more like two or three cumulative hours of productive work a day, the performance you get from an executive is inversely proportional to their salary, and entire job classes, many of them "elite," are demonstrably no better than flipping coins (e.g. financial managers).
Lying about your usefulness and inventing make work to keep the proles in line isn't a communist thing. It's a more-than-one-person-in-a-group thing. Actually, I bet most people isolated in the wilderness would also lie to themselves about how much work they actually did.
there is NOTHING wrong with trying to make your work life as productive as possible.
Extremes are bad for you. Moderation makes for a happier life.
But, really, TFA is using the wrong terminology. The proper rant is "stop confusing activity with productivity!" If you fill your life with some way to be busy at all time, I have to wonder what you're running from. Efficiency is a good thing, but continuous frantic activity is not, despite both being approaches to productivity.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.