March 13, 2005
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
8:52 PM (Pacific)
Bleh! How crappy did that sound? I'm tired. I've been working since last night...I helped snake a drain (the glamour, the glitz lol); all day today I've been doing physical work. It was okay at first but the last hour was the last hour and should have been the last hour, an hour earlier.
Now I'm doing laundry. I did mention about the drain? A few days without a washer in this household, means no one has anything to wear (except me--I'm smart enough to buy lots of socks and underwear). So, exactly when everyone's day is ending, mine is just beginning.
It does go back to why I wanted to work on a women's website to begin with. I knew it could be the sole place in my life where I wasn't the laundry-doer, or else defined by my "wiles" at getting someone else to do the laundry, or whatever. I'm sick to death of wiles; it's demeaning.
Why can't people just wash their own clothes? I say that because I know that the day men have to do laundry, the laundry robots will magically appear on the market. Hello. I did mention I was a programmer. There are solutions to problems, if one is looking for solutions. Right now the attitude is simply that women are cheaper than robots. Did I mention the word "demeaning" yet?
Hummm, what else. Outsourcing. I think it's going out of style.
What people tend to forget, is that American corporations plan ahead--for the quarter. i.e. they care about making money for this quarter. I'm not knocking it; it's a fact. It can work for you the same as it can work against you.
I mean eventually...like next year...the notion of taking every single last job away from Americans and giving it to someone else, may not be as profitable as it is now. If only because employed people spend more money than unemployed people.
You will eventually need people to buy all those things you're importing. What's holding the system in place now is people buying those things on credit. Eventually...next year...too many people will be indentured servants to their credit cards. i.e. all of their money will go into making payments. Some of them will lose their houses over it and the rest will need to work.
Does that explain the eternal optimism of Americans? If you don't like the economy, just wait a quarter?
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