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What additional word rhymes with the following list?

bobs, blobs, cobs, gobs, globs, lobs, mobs, robs, slobs, and sobs?

That’s right. Jobs. Everyone is talking about them lately.

But… did you notice that all the other _obs words denote something nasty, or is at least most prevalently used with something nasty (lobs grenades, globs of vomit, cob up one’s ass). Even the benign noun ‘knobs’ is spelled with a silent K to set it apart. We can go further and point out that ‘hobble’, ‘wobble’, and ‘gobble’ aren’t things we like to see.

Of course jobs must be evil, or it wouldn’t be named so. You just know that the coarse terms ‘blow-jobs’ and ‘hand-jobs’ were named by women.

So jobs is the nasty way of saying career or occupation. It’s less about what we do but more about the money it gets us. It’s evil. So why are all the politicians incorrectly using the word ‘jobs’ to describe to us what we think we want? They might as well be saying:

“I want to give everyone a good kick in the stomach!”

“We need more zombies!”

“Building this will create more putrid abscesses!”

…and still everybody wants a job… and they subconsciously hate it… and they’re deceiving themselves. You’re suffering with everyone around you, which makes it OK. It’s all about the acceptance of the others around you. It’s the American work ethic… and it’s meaningless in today’s world, especially when we’re given no logical direction to go. Putting a man on the moon was so easy because the goal was clear, well defined, and with unanimous acceptance.

Of course, it is computers (technology) that are making jobs redundant. The ability for one computer to manage every insurance need for everyone in the world is here. A computer was capable of driving a vehicle around the world ten years ago. Ask Steven Jobs.

Who doesn’t want robots to pull all the weeds out instead of spraying herbicides?

Who doesn’t want robots to zap threatening bugs instead of using pesticides?

Who doesn’t want rapid computerized distribution to eliminate preservatives?

The answers to these questions are one and the same: It’s the people who have jobs in these fields that are afraid of losing them.

I feel sorry for people who hold a ‘job’.

Why can’t we all share the jobs that are left? If we’re at 8% unemployment, how many hours could we reduce the work week by employing everyone?

[There is nothing sacred about the 40 hour work week (started by Ford in the 1920’s), except for the great monopoly that makes people believe they control life or death: Healthcare. But that’s another story.]

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round: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%”>314528389 people (U.S.) X 8% = 25162271 unemployed people

138023000 jobs X 40 hr work week = 5520920000 total work hours

138023000 jobs + 25162271 unemployed people = 163185271 total people who can work

5520920000 total work hours / 163185271 total people who can work = 33.8 hrs/week (6.8 hrs/day)

Hmmmm… A 33.8 hour work week still seems like a lot. Let’s throw in all the people who have given up finding work, which is estimated to increase unemployment to 16%.

blah, blah, blah, blah = 29.3 hrs/week (5.86 hrs/day)

At my age, I’m only good for three hours of work a day. Let’s fire all the truck drivers and replace them with robots (easy). There’s 10,000,000 truckers who just steer a wheel down a straight line all day (7% of the workforce).

blah, blah, blah, blah = 25.8 hrs/week (5.16 hrs/day)

Sheeesh! Truckers hardly make a dent. Let’s fire everyone in the oil and gas industries, which is just a obsolete monopoly feeding itself while it destroys the world. That’s 9,200,000 workers.

blah, blah, blah, blah = 22.9 hrs/week (4.58 hrs/day)

We’re almost half way there. Here go all the insurance people (2250000) and the U.S. Postal Service (574,000). I hate getting mail.

blah, blah, blah, blah = 22.06 hrs/week (4.41 hrs/day)

Gosh! I almost forgot the Federal government. Simplification and automation should reduce that workforce to half (2,221,500). Losing jobs is really a good thing.

blah, blah, blah, blah = 21.41 hrs/week (4.28 hrs/day)

So the worst deadwood can cut our ‘essential’ work load almost in half. I know you probably left two calculations ago, so I’ll just do one more. Let’s include all women, children, retirees, etc. Anyone can handle less than 4 hours a day. Remember… it builds character.

blah, blah, blah, blah = 14.47 hrs/week (2.89 hrs/day)

Ahhhh… I could live with that.