Studies have shown that the average office worker does only 1.5 hours of actual work per day. The rest of the time is spent socializing, taking coffee breaks, eating, engaging in non-business communication, shuffling papers, and doing lots of other non-work tasks. The average full-time office worker doesn't even start doing real work until 11:00am and begins to wind down around 3:30pm.

Basically, when you're being paid by the hour, there's no motivation to be productive. I think it would be much more fair and humane to pay people for the actual volume of work they did! That way, you could show up for work, do 1.5 hours of straight work, then go home and relax for the rest of the day. You wouldn't have to waste 6.5 hours a day pretending to work.

And that's exactly what things were like before the industrial revolution. You'd farm for a few hours, or weave baskets, and there would be a direct correllation between how much work you did and how much money you made. Want to make more money? Weave 10 more baskets! There were no real monopolies because there were no cars, so you were more dependant on what the local people produced.

Also, innovation had huge payoffs. If you built a pump that could automatically milk a cow, suddenly you became super wealthy and didn't have to work! Now, if you create an innovation that does your job for you, the company lays you off because you just replaced your own job!

When you're paid flat-rate, there's no incentive for one employee to work harder than another. It's almost like communism! (GASP!)

I've done some calculations, and the average person who works for 45 years from 9am-5pm, 250 days a year (every weekday with 2 weeks holiday), will spend 73,125 hours (or 36 work-years) doing nothing!!!

There's something wrong with the system, MAN!

This is what a meritocracy is supposed to be, but right now we're told that we live in a meritocracy, when truly, most of the wealth is going to a few at the very very top.

Oh, sad sad state of affairs.