Causing a significant drop in production and consumption, the Chinese virus has created an additional victim and not the least: the rat. It must obviously be understood in a figurative sense, namely our inner animal, the one that runs after work to earn even more money and buy endlessly, in short the Rat Race. Locked up at home, we are forced to live in slow motion and limit our spending. Some even find themselves unemployed, partially or completely. The world has stopped, the streets are empty, the traffic jams have disappeared on the highways, we can hear the birds singing. Calm has returned. In a way, we have to admit, it feels good. We can finally take the time to reconnect with ourselves. Too bad we need a microscopic organism to realize this.
This bucolic interlude unfortunately ends there. Those who believed the rat was definitively buried were wrong. It is there, lying in wait on the starting blocks, stamping its feet with impatience, stronger than ever, ready to pounce and devour everything in its path. Barely had the curve of contaminations with the Chinese virus begun to decline when business circles and even some unions were calling for the lifting of containment measures. Because we must not mess around with work. We are not going to stay like this doing nothing for more than four weeks. And it doesn't matter if the number of cases starts to rise again because now the industry is ready, the Chinese are reproducing masks, Migros has caged its cashiers, General Motors has managed to transform its SUVs into artificial respirators and the Morand distillery even produces hydroalcoholic gel at 73.- per liter, from pear brandy.
We are truly living in wonderful times.
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And yes, this year is the year of the rat (according to the Chinese horoscope), the restart of a new cycle!
Yeah. What is your ideal world? One where no one is forced to work, where everyone is totally free, including financially? It seems like a perfect utopia, therefore something unattainable. So, staying in the reality of what can be done and potentially work, how would you see things?
We agree, a world without work is not possible. What is mind-boggling, however, is the eagerness of some to want to lift the lockdown even though the health situation has not yet eased. It looks like a drug addict in withdrawal.
Jerome, your messages make me laugh! Keep going…
+1 🙂
My office is in my living room so I am permanently in the office!
Match result: Employer 1 Employee 0.
Long live the rat!
I also work for my wife's boss.
Employer 2 – Employee 0
Is your wife your boss too? 😛
How did you guess?
For a rat, that's a rat:
"We must avoid people being tempted to get used to the current situation, or even to be seduced by its insidious appearances: much less traffic on the roads, a sky deserted by air traffic, less noise and agitation, the return to a simple life and local commerce, the end of the consumer society... This perception
romantic is misleading, because the slowdown in social and economic life is in reality very painful for countless inhabitants who have no desire to undergo this forced experience of decline any longer. Most individuals feel the need, but also the desire and satisfaction, to work, create, produce, exchange and consume. We can do this more or less intelligently, and we have the right to learn some lessons from the current crisis. But it is nevertheless essential that economic activity resumes quickly and fully its
rights. »
Source: Swiss Employers' Center
Long live the rat!
https://www.rtn.ch/rtn/Actualite/economie/20200427-Longues-files-d-attentes-devant-les-magasins-de-bricolage.html
Yes, what a pleasure to see man in all his splendor, who is just waiting to be able to start working too much again, to be able to consume too much, after which he will have to work even more, in order to be able to pay all these bills, before getting into debt to succeed in consuming even more, and it continues like this until he feels nauseous and vomits up all these excesses.
Who said that man is more evolved than animals?
More evolved because the animal only has primary needs. We are lucky to have unlimited needs! Woohoo!
As the guy from the employers' center said very well: most people feel the need to work and consume.
Couldn't have said it better. I'll ask him to post here. We found a third bro!
Yesterday I passed through Villeneuve. The McDrive was literally stormed, following the closure of the restaurants. Never-ending lines… The rat is dead. Long live the rat!
A story that grabs you by the guts and addresses various themes such as: money, power, alcohol, drugs, the need to always have more, unhappiness, inner emptiness, happiness, the meaning of life.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/opinion/sunday/for-the-love-of-money.html?_r=0
EXCELLENT!