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We’re reminded often to mind our “work-life balance”, but perhaps that distinction is drawn too plainly. Today we hear from David Bahnsen, author of the just-published Full Time: Work and the Meaning of Life, who makes the case that what we do for a living means a great deal more than what today’s wellness gurus would have us believe. They go over everything in between the midcentury trend toward retirement as the goal to the contemporary push to work in pajamas.
On the flipside Peter, Rob and James discuss the latest reminder that Joe Biden is not up for the job he’s got; and they dig into an unbelievable project to make ancient scrolls flash-fried by the Vesuvius eruption in the first century AD readable once again.
- Audio this week: Biden defends his memory and then places Mexico outside of Gaza.
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Could not agree more with David Bahnsen. The first job when you are a teenager is important. You learn to show up on time, work with people of different backgrounds, and generations, you learn what you do not want to do, you gain deposable income. I got my first job at 15. Haven’t stop yet (62 and counting) – I expect to work into my 70s.
I can’t say I understand it, but supposedly McCain-Feingold eliminated the smoke filled rooms and the party bosses and it’s been bad.
For the one millionth time: when you see somebody babbling about John McCain on social media, ask him or her how he moved the football forward for conservatives or libertarians. The same thing happens every time.
My dear Lord is TDS tiresome.
14:50 – Excellent lesson for 2024 Democrats. Peter on FDR’s health / succession problem in 1944.
49:05 – Author David Bahnsen on the value of teenage jobs, and (50:30) life skills learned in the minor leagues of work.
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Piso, not Pliny.
Back when I was starting out in my profession, It was very helpful to work with others in person. The informal conversations were important in building my skills.
It seems to me that work benefits like in-office lunch, and dry cleaning, benefits the employer, besides the employee. The lunch period will be shorter since people don’t need to spend time traveling to lunch, or running errands.
There was some interesting discussion that struck me as similar/related, in the “We Work (So You Don’t Have To)” episode of GLoP.
Father of Calpurnia, who almost convinced her husband, Julius Caesar, to stay home from the Senate on the Ides of March.
One scholar is hoping they will find complete works by Aristotle, what the ancients called his “golden stream”, rather than the fragments and terse lecture notes that are all we have.
They have 800 charred scrolls in hand, but some archaeologists believe there is a main library with thousands more that has yet to be found.
Over the years, I’m sure there were bean counters who said, “You can’t read them anyway. Might as well dump them in the landfill.”
A group of senior GOP politicos went to RMN and told him he was beyond his ‘Sell-by’ date. It was for the good of the Party and the GOP. Is there NO Democrat with the clout to say what Axelrod and Begala have said and what MILLIONS of ordinary Americans see and know?
Joe has got to go EVEN if it means 10+ months of Kamala. (OMG!—but it is THAT bad.)
And even if Kamala did absolutely nothing during those months, I think Trump would “beat her like a drum.”
I’m as capitalist as the next guy, but what was missing from the discussion is how technology has erased the boundary between work life and home life. Especially in tech, I know plenty of people in regular “paycheck” jobs *where work can be done from home* working 8-5PM, then 7PM-2AM. Every day. And then working more on the weekends. Vacations get canceled, or everyone feels too guilty to take one, or abhors the backup awaiting them when they return, so they forgo vacations. It is impossible to interact significantly with family with these hours, or to start one. And this is not to meet a special project deadline for a short period, this is 365/24/7 to meet basic expectations, because companies won’t hire more people to get the work done. I myself was given another person’s job when they left, as the logic was that I’m more senior, so I should be able to take both jobs. Therefore, I am looking at leaving, although I expect to see the same kind of logic at other companies. How is this good for the customer, when this invites mistakes from exhausted and burned out employees, and constant brain drain of institutional knowledge?
Yes, a small business owner may work these kinds of hours, but at the end of the day they own a significant asset.
I think replacing Joe with Kamala was always the plan, because she’s an empty suit, and a “historic” first that Democrats and some Independents will vote for.