There is an ever-growing problem in our society. It is called employment. This dangerous activity leads to greater issues. There are so many people who have been brain-washed into thinking that having a job is not only important, but somehow necessary. Have you ever known anyone who's had a job? It's a sad sight to see. They are so stressed out about their job performance, their boss, their co-workers, and raises that they can't even relax and enjoy an evening of WWF wrestling.
Employment certainly does add to a person's stress level. They have to worry about how they're doing at work, what the boss thinks, and if they're better than their co-workers. This is no way for a person to live. Unemployment is the way to go. It allows you so much more free time. Employed people are so busy working or worrying about work that they never have any time to consider just how many licks it DOES take to get to the center of a tootsie pop (the answer is, of course, 327). Now, only someone who's unemployed would know that. The rest of the world is too busy wondering if they're going to get their next raise or promotion to find out the answer to a question that nags at us all.
Along with employment comes the problem of materialism. People with jobs buy stuff. Lots of stuff. Lots of stuff they don't need. Stuff to do the things they don't have time to do (like wash dishes) because they're too busy working. Time-saving devices so they can work more and make more money to buy more time-saving devices. Sounds a tad ridiculous, doesn't it? You'll never see an unemployed person buying things to save time. For one thing, they have no money, but they have enough time that they don't need to save any. And what exactly are the employed going to do with all that time? When are they going to make a withdrawal from the bank of time? When they're too old to spend it?
Of course, when you have stuff, you have to worry about it, too. Is it the best stuff or is there bigger, better stuff out there? What other stuff can I buy to make my stuff bigger and better? Then you have to buy stuff to protect your stuff. Alarm stuff, home protection stuff, deadbolt stuff. And it's all an illusion, 'cause the only people who are afraid of alarms and things are people who wouldn't steal your stuff anyway. If we didn't have stuff, we wouldn't have such a horrible crime rate. People want to blame the increasing crime rate on the poor and unemployed, bit it's the employed people who are at fault. If they didn't go buy stuff, no one would have anything to steal.
Another benefit of being unemployed is mobility. Some unemployed people are homeless, but of those that aren't, few have any possessions (if they did, they'd just sell them to get food-they're clever that way). Think of how easy that makes it to move, especially in the case of the homeless. If you don't like where you're living, you just pick up your cardboard box and move to another neighborhood. What could be easier? As for the few that actually have homes, it's easy for them to move, too. Not like those employed people who have to have a garage sale to get ride of some of that stuff they had to have, because they have too much to take with them. They need to take a lesson from the Nomads: travel light and move often. It makes for a much more interesting life.
Unemployment is also good for people's health. It certainly lowers their stress level (no job, no job stress). It allows people time to get enough sleep as well. According to a recent 20/20 report, sleep deprivation is reaching epidemic proportions in our country. And sleep deprivation can be dangerous: people fall asleep at the wheel and kill others. You won't find this problem among the unemployed. They are a well-rested bunch. Because they have time-THEY aren't saving it for a rainy day. No sir. They are making use of it right here and now. They're following their bodies' natural rhythm. Employed humans are the only animals who get up when they're tired and go to sleep when they're not. The jobless are in tune with nature. They'll live longer. Long after the worker drones have died of heart attacks and strokes.
There's another thing about the non-working: they are the audience for all the mindless drivel. If it weren't for the unemployed, who would watch soap operas? Who would be on Jerry Springer, slugging it out with their step-sister-in-law? Who would read Weekly World News and Star magazine? Who indeed. Certainly not the worker bees; they are too busy saving time and accumulating stuff. The work-shy help create a need for these things, so that Susan Lucci and Geraldo have jobs. In their own humble way, they assist low-brow entertainers (and that's using the term loosely) to acquire stuff, too.
So, the next time you call someone a bone-lazy, do-nothing, shiftless, indolent, slothful derelict, realize that they are merely disinclined to work. Know that they will probably outlive you, and will know the answers to things you don't have time to ponder, because you're too busy making deposits in the bank of time, and there's a penalty for early withdrawal.