Take some time to explore and go through the chart on this page:
The American Time Use survey.
Click in the "work" area, and click on "Employed" above the graph. What do you see?
An average American is working for 5 hours and 12 minutes a day, while he is employed. I can't believe this is happening. No wonder they are hit by recessions and depressions every so often. I don't know if this average includes weekends too, in which case, it's not as bad as it seems, but if it doesn't, the US will need at least 10-20 more recessions and depressions to cure its laziness.
Everyone in the US watches, on the average, 2 hours and 46 minutes of TV and movies everyday. How can I restrain myself from criticizing Americans for their slobbish lifestyle? I too am getting addicted to this mental affliction - watching TV and movies, a 21st century curse that industrialization inflicted on us.
The positives in the Survey:
Hard to see, but let me try and dig them out. 8:36 hours of sleep everyday - seems to be a healthy habit. Men work for 4:07 hours a day, while women work for 2:46 hours a day. Women seem to have achieved what they wanted - equality at work, though it's not as much as they would have wanted.
The negatives in the Survey:
One, I have already noted - hardly any compliance with their self-imposed standards of working from 9-to-5 every day, which would take 8 hours of work a day. The hard to grasp reality is that the average is only 5:12 hours of work a day. Everyone spends 1:12 hours a day traveling to and from work. Wouldn't it be better to live close to work, or work close to where you live? Wasting so much oil, if you ask me. And when they run out of oil, they look for WMDs in other lands.
Factors:
I don't know how the averages are computed - how they included weekdays and weekends in their calculations. That would change everything by a factor of 1.4. Of course, one will have to consider the fact that this survey was done in 2008 and during a time of a global recession, which undoubtedly originated in the US itself.
Conclusions:
The related article here says that unemployment leads to higher production at home, and employment leads to higher production in the marketplace. I completely agree with that, and it takes a lot of insight to conclude this point.
Suggestions:
Stop watching TV and start socializing with family and friends. Then you need not worry about economic slowdown as much.
The American Time Use survey.
Click in the "work" area, and click on "Employed" above the graph. What do you see?
An average American is working for 5 hours and 12 minutes a day, while he is employed. I can't believe this is happening. No wonder they are hit by recessions and depressions every so often. I don't know if this average includes weekends too, in which case, it's not as bad as it seems, but if it doesn't, the US will need at least 10-20 more recessions and depressions to cure its laziness.
Everyone in the US watches, on the average, 2 hours and 46 minutes of TV and movies everyday. How can I restrain myself from criticizing Americans for their slobbish lifestyle? I too am getting addicted to this mental affliction - watching TV and movies, a 21st century curse that industrialization inflicted on us.
The positives in the Survey:
Hard to see, but let me try and dig them out. 8:36 hours of sleep everyday - seems to be a healthy habit. Men work for 4:07 hours a day, while women work for 2:46 hours a day. Women seem to have achieved what they wanted - equality at work, though it's not as much as they would have wanted.
The negatives in the Survey:
One, I have already noted - hardly any compliance with their self-imposed standards of working from 9-to-5 every day, which would take 8 hours of work a day. The hard to grasp reality is that the average is only 5:12 hours of work a day. Everyone spends 1:12 hours a day traveling to and from work. Wouldn't it be better to live close to work, or work close to where you live? Wasting so much oil, if you ask me. And when they run out of oil, they look for WMDs in other lands.
Factors:
I don't know how the averages are computed - how they included weekdays and weekends in their calculations. That would change everything by a factor of 1.4. Of course, one will have to consider the fact that this survey was done in 2008 and during a time of a global recession, which undoubtedly originated in the US itself.
Conclusions:
The related article here says that unemployment leads to higher production at home, and employment leads to higher production in the marketplace. I completely agree with that, and it takes a lot of insight to conclude this point.
Suggestions:
Stop watching TV and start socializing with family and friends. Then you need not worry about economic slowdown as much.
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