Americans Work Too Hard

No, really.

This is, of course, coming from someone that has now worked 60+ hours a week for more than 8 weeks.

And this graph shows, I think, an adequate representation of how motivated I am to work at all now.


(That would be me, in the pink now)

Or this one



What is really sad to see is this trend, though, showing that Americans are now working exponentially harder every year with no change in our buying power (in other words, we work harder just to keep what we have).


And we are working far harder than anyone else in the industrialized world...



And despite of all this, people still think America is a great place to live.

Let me tell you:  you're _going_ to work for it.

HARD

For the rest of your life.

With diminishing returns on your time investment.

Or perhaps Americans are just dumb.

I think they definitely are for putting up with unreasonable demands from employers that require you to work nights and weekends- sleeping on a cot in the office- just to meet an artificial deadline that NO ONE will care about in 3 months, much less 5 years.

Happy Wednesday.