[p2p-research] Fwd: Missing Productivity and the Rise of Social Production

[Kevin Carson]

On 7/4/09, Stan Rhodes <stanleyrhodes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kevin, I think Yglesias' ironic portrayal of the hard-working American
> mindset reveals a deeper and more meaningful critique. Many Americans really
> do see working hard as a virtue*, and market-value production as the goal.
> The American corporate hero works hard and plays hard, and if he can't do
> that, he buys a Dilbert calendar and grins and bears it.  Another day,
> another dollar.

One of the major liberal bloggers, I forget who, once posted advice to
Americans traveling in Europe.  He said if you bragged to a German
that you worked 80 hours a week, the German would look at you like you
bragged you washed your hands 200 times a day.

Yglesias also blogged once about the idiocy of "facetime," arguing
that people who work from home are far more productive because they
view work as a discrete amount of stuff to get done so you can do
something else, instead of looking for ways to seem busy because
they're on the clock.

-- 
Kevin Carson
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