A TikTok video making the rounds seems to be hitting home with a segment of the U.S. workforce. It seems like the same segment that quiet quit and threw a fit about going back to the office after the pandemic.
Here's the tagline for the video:
Go out there and give it 23%!
[MIld language]
Let's look at some of the claims of the video.
"You're already more productive than somebody 50 years ago."
This is true. Productivity, in real terms, is the amount produced per hour.
In general, productivity in the U.S. has increased year over year, every year since World War II. Most of this is due to technological advancement. Imagine how many working hours this article would have taken to produce and distribute 50 years ago. Tens of people would have been involved in the process. Today, a couple of people brush a few keystrokes, and away it goes.
"And that's with most people only being truly productive for about three to four hours per day."
This is not quite true.
Research shows that the average worker can be truly productive for five hours, but you know, what's a couple of hours of loss of productivity between an employer and an employee?
"If I were as fit as I could be, I wouldn't have the time nor the experiences to make people laugh."
Oh! Was this guy trying to make people laugh? Is that what he thinks he's doing here?
Besides, a comedian like J.P. Sears is ridiculously fit, and he makes me laugh all the time.
Then again there's Carrot Top, so I guess I can concede that "peak" fitness could kill someone's sense of humor.
But I digress.
"If I was as good at my job as I could be then I'd be sacrificing my own life and time for a bunch of billionaires who don't even know I exist."
Ah! There's the anti-capitalist rub.
He's just a lazy, long-haired hippie commie. I don't know what you expected.
And he probably thinks that when the Marxist utopia is ushered in he'll get to be the resident comedian.
Surprise, you're just another ditch-digger!
The trouble with his "billionaire" assertion is that 61 million Americans are employed, not by a billionaire, but by small business owners. That's 46.4% of the working force in the United States.
That small business is likely counting on your productivity to stay open tomorrow. If you're not willing to give your best, they‘re going to need to find someone who is, or you won't be the only one looking for work.
Here are just a few of the reactions that make you wonder what the U.S. workforce is going to look like in ten years once the boomers have fully retired.
Good luck out there, business owners, we're training up a new generation of lazy Marxists!
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