Another non-sensical graph - really crossed into meme territory.
The U.S. States that work the hardest
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So, which state got 13.8 score?
"work hours...unused vacation...commute"
Having spent most of my career in tech in both Massachusetts and California's Silicon Valley, this analysis appears to be pretty much rubbish
Having spent most of my career in tech in both Massachusetts and California's Silicon Valley, this analysis appears to be pretty much rubbish
The metric they use sound more like "being poor" than hard working.
Most of the high earners are paid annually instead of hourly and don't log their overtime unpaid. Everything else is something that people wouldn't have done if they are not poor (like long commute, multiple jobs, etc).
This is as stupid a chart as Wall Street calling institutional investors "smart money" and non institutional investors "dumb money". Yeah I am a proud stupid money investor.
Most of the high earners are paid annually instead of hourly and don't log their overtime unpaid. Everything else is something that people wouldn't have done if they are not poor (like long commute, multiple jobs, etc).
This is as stupid a chart as Wall Street calling institutional investors "smart money" and non institutional investors "dumb money". Yeah I am a proud stupid money investor.
Blue is a great place to be, if you are lucky enough to get there.
I wonder what working hard means in this context? I worked really hard trimming trees, as a loborer, etc. out in the hot CA sun. That's hard work!
Working in an air conditioned office, playing with computers, etc. is not hard work.
I used to laugh at the Silicon Valley workers who told me they worked hard. What a joke!
Working in an air conditioned office, playing with computers, etc. is not hard work.
I used to laugh at the Silicon Valley workers who told me they worked hard. What a joke!
That's the point. To someone who dropped out of school to avoid doing math and writing essays doing math is "hard work" and driving truck is not. To someone who enjoys playing with computer, developing games 60 hours a week is not hard.
The rest of the quantified metric here like commute hours and unused PTO is just a fear and poverty index. You can get that kind of metric sleeping on the job reading email or doing physical construction work.
Facts.
Built on a crumbling foundation of a fake meme. OK
This kind of thing reminds me of surveys of memories of foods consumed/quantities for health patterns.
I will never agree that working with your mind vs manual labor is hard work. I know many say that, but I've done both. There is no comaprison. And one is far more rewarding.
Just my opinion... All good.
Not sure I follow your point...
In my case, big fat dividend checks are pretty nice. Owning an asset like dividends paying stock is not hard work. More like free money...
Just my opinion. All good Pablo.
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There should be a hard fine for repeatedly reposting meaningless and purposedly divisive meme crap. Like - paying for a stamp per reader's lost time or something. And a multiplier if a "It's BS with different colors having the same metrics" disclaimer is not put in from the very beginning 
I'm not sure what your point is, but that graphic is pretty meaningless.
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This ^^^
It's funny that in a community where we constantly question, second-guess and overanalyze hard, scientific data with official lab provenance and traceable origins, we avidly gobble every meme that gets thrown at us as long as it pets our preconceptions the right way.
When posting something, OP should at least do the courtesy of at explaining the metrics that the source has used. After all, it is expected that he did read the article, and was so taken by it that he wanted to share it with us. And did not, I repeat - DID NOT, just want to launch yet another clickbait thread that will have people at each other's throats in two pages.
And no, "Just wanted to start a discussion here" does not fly. No sane discussion can be had with no information on what is actually being published, where it comes from, and how the graphics were put together.
It's funny that in a community where we constantly question, second-guess and overanalyze hard, scientific data with official lab provenance and traceable origins, we avidly gobble every meme that gets thrown at us as long as it pets our preconceptions the right way.
When posting something, OP should at least do the courtesy of at explaining the metrics that the source has used. After all, it is expected that he did read the article, and was so taken by it that he wanted to share it with us. And did not, I repeat - DID NOT, just want to launch yet another clickbait thread that will have people at each other's throats in two pages.
And no, "Just wanted to start a discussion here" does not fly. No sane discussion can be had with no information on what is actually being published, where it comes from, and how the graphics were put together.
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I'm pretty sure none of us knows what the others are talking about.
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"Don't ask me about that part that I know about, because I don't really understand it."
Story of my life...