American Workers...
I seriously believe that one of the major underlying ills of our modern American Society is it has become part of our cultural psyche that you are expected to give your life up entirely to a job. And we have done so at the detriment of everything else in our lives.

What makes things more complicated is that it is also a part of our American Culture to get "BIGGER and BETTER." So we buy more crap, get inefficient (but pretty) vehicles, and enormous MANSIONS we can't afford all that cost so much that we need to work even more to pay it all off.

It's not hard to believe that families fall apart so easily these days. Parents can't afford to stay home more and care for their children so they grow up detached and distant from their families. Couples can't commit enough time to fostering a healthy relationship so marriages fall apart. BOTH parents have to work because they can't afford having one commit themselves fully to raising children.

Our obsession with our lifestyles, and by extension our jobs, is destroying what should be the most basic of joys in life. It all leads to neglect and abuse of those people we claim to care about... those people we are supposedly working so hard for.

This sort of thing is particularly bothersome to me because I live in a state with one of the HIGHEST Cost of Living, and the LOWEST wages in the country. It's a bitch to just make ends meet in this fucked up state, let alone try and raise a family. God only knows how my parents managed raising me and my sisters.

This little rant is due to THIS article about being "burned out" at work.