Occupy Wall Street - Page 189

On December 01 2011 20:41 nihlon wrote:


I hope the journalists don't give a crap. I see no justification for such restrictions.

On December 02 2011 07:39 AttackZerg wrote:
To occupy a public area in a public commune is extremely draining. I now understand how homeless people die so quickly, it is hell to be "camping" in public.

And when I'm tired and bummed out about the sacrifices I'm making I go to wired.com on a library break and shit like this is still going on

No Trial provision for american "terrorists"


Get them guys, agree or disagree, share the knowledge you believe to be true - with everyone you know. Teach people the things that being an internet lurker is all about, the dirty secrets we are all so used to reading.

The U.S. is the ONLY country in the Americas without a national paid parental leave benefit. The average is over 12 weeks of paid leave anywhere other than Europe and over 20 weeks in Europe.
Zero industrialized nations are without a mandatory option for new parents to take parental leave. That is, except for the United States.

At least 134 countries have laws setting the maximum length of the work week; the U.S. does not.

In the U.S., 85.8 percent of males and 66.5 percent of females work more than 40 hours per week.

According to the ILO, “Americans work 137 more hours per year than Japanese workers, 260 more hours per year than British workers, and 499 more hours per year than French workers.”

Using data by the U.S. BLS, the average productivity per American worker has increased 400% since 1950. One way to look at that is that it should only take one-quarter the work hours, or 11 hours per week, to afford the same standard of living as a worker in 1950 (or our standard of living should be 4 times higher). Is that the case? Obviously not. Someone is profiting, it’s just not the average American worker.

On December 04 2011 08:02 semantics wrote:
http://20somethingfinance.com/american-hours-worked-productivity-vacation/
by G.E. Miller on October 12, 2010
some perspective to those who say that workers are lazy here


more stats and opinion on the site

On December 04 2011 08:02 semantics wrote:
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On December 07 2011 17:11 Kaitlin wrote:
My guess is hours worked over 40 hours per week in a salaried position where overtime isn't paid. Of course, the assumption is that the salary is only for 40 hours per week, which isn't necessarily the case.

On December 07 2011 17:55 Ropid wrote:
It seems to mean "cooking, caring and volunteering" in that OECD study, so something completely separate of the job that is counted as "paid work".

About that paid annual leave and holiday criticism, I think that is useless to argue about, if you strictly think of annual salaries. It is just a matter of how you look at it in whatever calculations you do when you compare two jobs. For example, you are actually required to take off days from work at a typical job here in Germany, because those extra days you were not supposed to work for in that year would mean problems for the company regarding regulations, so no one actually has access to that money involving those days.

Most unpaid work is housework. Mexicans do the most, at more than 3 hours per day, and Koreans the least, at 1 hour and 19 minutes. Much of this time is spent cooking. Americans spend the least time cooking each day (30 minutes) and Turks the most in the OECD (74 minutes). Most people spend around 50 minutes a day cooking.

Shopping also makes up a big part of unpaid work. Most people in OECD countries spend 23 minutes a day shopping, with the French spending the most (32 minutes) and the Koreans the least (13 minutes).

The report also attempts to estimate how much unpaid work is worth as a percentage of GDP for the 25 OECD countries for which data are available. It finds that the value of unpaid work is considerable, equivalent to about one-third of GDP in OECD countries, ranging from a low of 19% in Korea to a high of 53% in Portugal.

On December 07 2011 18:51 Kaitlin wrote:
Wait, somebody who does some sort of research into this stuff actually considers going to the mall, and cooking dinner to be "work" ?