Stream of consciousness narrative.
2020 looks like the year the final nails were driven into the coffin of American society as we've known it.
I'm calling it the development of the dog-walking generation or class. So many jobs became idea jobs. Non-productive enough that they can laughingly call it working from home. But instead of working, they are out walking their dogs. In their tee shirts and shorts. I wonder how much dog walking contributes to the GDP?
The idea jobs came along after so many industrial jobs disappeared. Some people claim foreigners stole those jobs from the US. But isn't it more a case of American corporations found cheaper ways to do things offshore?
Idea workers no longer have to worry about their boss looking over their shoulder and catching them prowling Fakebook two or three hours a day on company time.
Speaking of GDP, did you know that government labor is counted in the GDP? No transfer payments are included, such as Social Security. But other government work is included, such as military labor. It's true that there are a few government agencies that actually produce something. Such as the USPS delivering mail, the TVA and BPA producing and delivering power. But most of the remainder of government labor is non-productive if regulatory and possibly necessary. As it doesn't really produce anything, rather it consumes tax revenue. But since GDP embraces "services" as a measurement of productivity, those provided by the government are included. Just one little tidbit that makes you wonder how accurate government data really is.
Or take the census. What a joke. I do have limited knowledge of what goes on behind the scenes. It's utter chaos with tons of disorganization, wasted effort and money. Not just this year due to COVID virus. But it was the same confused, wasteful mess back in 2010. The full-time administrators that get on early in the game are the primary beneficiaries. Let's not forget politics having to do with it. I think the end result contains more guesswork than we'd care to know about.
If a person actually does get COVID virus, it's a bad thing. However, the virus has become great cover for everyone else who are (around here, anyway) just going about their personal business and now have all day to do it in. Traffic is back to being as bad or worse than it was before the virus. Maybe worse if you take into account the insane speeders who for a brief period got lots of freeway to drive on. They are still at it.
This is a transposition of my inner mental narrative as I was driving over to Home Creepo. Upon arrival, I found half of their parking lot roped off for repaving in the middle of the business day. One reason HD is so crowded these days is that people "working from home" or whatever have that much more time to catch up on or create projects around the house.
2020 looks like the year the final nails were driven into the coffin of American society as we've known it.
I'm calling it the development of the dog-walking generation or class. So many jobs became idea jobs. Non-productive enough that they can laughingly call it working from home. But instead of working, they are out walking their dogs. In their tee shirts and shorts. I wonder how much dog walking contributes to the GDP?
The idea jobs came along after so many industrial jobs disappeared. Some people claim foreigners stole those jobs from the US. But isn't it more a case of American corporations found cheaper ways to do things offshore?
Idea workers no longer have to worry about their boss looking over their shoulder and catching them prowling Fakebook two or three hours a day on company time.
Speaking of GDP, did you know that government labor is counted in the GDP? No transfer payments are included, such as Social Security. But other government work is included, such as military labor. It's true that there are a few government agencies that actually produce something. Such as the USPS delivering mail, the TVA and BPA producing and delivering power. But most of the remainder of government labor is non-productive if regulatory and possibly necessary. As it doesn't really produce anything, rather it consumes tax revenue. But since GDP embraces "services" as a measurement of productivity, those provided by the government are included. Just one little tidbit that makes you wonder how accurate government data really is.
Or take the census. What a joke. I do have limited knowledge of what goes on behind the scenes. It's utter chaos with tons of disorganization, wasted effort and money. Not just this year due to COVID virus. But it was the same confused, wasteful mess back in 2010. The full-time administrators that get on early in the game are the primary beneficiaries. Let's not forget politics having to do with it. I think the end result contains more guesswork than we'd care to know about.
If a person actually does get COVID virus, it's a bad thing. However, the virus has become great cover for everyone else who are (around here, anyway) just going about their personal business and now have all day to do it in. Traffic is back to being as bad or worse than it was before the virus. Maybe worse if you take into account the insane speeders who for a brief period got lots of freeway to drive on. They are still at it.
This is a transposition of my inner mental narrative as I was driving over to Home Creepo. Upon arrival, I found half of their parking lot roped off for repaving in the middle of the business day. One reason HD is so crowded these days is that people "working from home" or whatever have that much more time to catch up on or create projects around the house.