The Centrist is reading up on ‘Funemployment’ where spreading the wealth mantra by Obama has erased the ‘the connection between wealth and work’.
Via Moonbattery
June 5, 2009
Obama Generation Embraces Funemployment
Unemployment is closing in on 10%. But everything’s still fine, so long as 90% are still slaving away to bankroll the activities of the unemployed — or as some call themselves, the funemployed:
Michael Van Gorkom was laid off by Yahoo in late April. He didn’t panic. He didn’t rush off to a therapist. Instead, the 33-year-old Santa Monica resident discovered that being jobless "kind of settled nicely."
Week one: "I thought, ‘OK … I need to send out resumes, send some e-mails, need to do networking."
Week two: "A little less."
Every week since: "I’m going to go to the beach and enjoy some margaritas."
What most people would call unemployment, Van Gorkom embraced as "funemployment."
While millions of Americans struggle to find work as they face foreclosures and bankruptcy, others have found a silver lining in the economic meltdown. These happily jobless tend to be single and in their 20s and 30s. Some were laid off. Some quit voluntarily, lured by generous buyouts.
Buoyed by severance, savings, unemployment checks or their parents, the funemployed do not spend their days poring over job listings. …at least till the bank account dries up, they’re content living for today.
This is the mentality that produced a president who wastes enough money to put Americans who haven’t been born yet into debt. People have become so frivolous, narcissistic, irresponsible, and self-indulgent that they can no longer grasp the necessity of work.
Jean Twenge, associate professor of psychology and coauthor of "The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement," says of funemployment:
It really suggests there has been that generational shift that work is not the be all and end all.
Especially not when "spreading the wealth around" has erased the connection between wealth and work.
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Funemployment
- To be unemployed and collecting unemployment, welfare, SSI or other means of income from government. This is especially true if you are on unemployment, and obtaining benefits with no desire to try and find a new job. Instead, the time is used to do other things, like travel, chill, etc
- The condition of a person who takes advantage of being out of a job to have the time of their life.I spent all day Tuesday at the pool; funemployment rocks!
From Gawker
June 4, 2009
The Way We Live Now: Funemployed. That’s the new word, really! Does it sort of make you want to get gangsters to dispose of the linguist who coined "Funemployment," then flee to live on a houseboat barge? You’re not alone.
Funemployment: when you’re unemployed, but it’s fun! This is in contrast to "Unemployment," which is when you’re unemployed and forced into prostitution in order to buy flour. No such worries for the funemployed!
Since being laid off as Yahoo Music’s director of user experience design, Van Gorkom said he has purchased a laptop and started shopping for a new couch, "which my dad doesn’t understand." As he spends money, his father is nervously asking Van Gorkom whether he needs any money.
We recommend funemployment for everyone! As long as you have a benefactor who’s a steady stream of cash. If not, well, you have to use the power of positive thinking. The Gotti family did it, and they get to keep their house! A bunch of NYC hippies chose to believe in fate, and now they get to live on a self-sufficient boat-barge for the next five months, drinking rainwater and pedaling a bicycle to generate enough electricity to read by the fading light of one rusty bulb! And hey, funemployment is no barrier to buying yourself a home in Greenwich any more—they’re practically giving them away! Mel Gibson’s mansion, for example, is down to $29.75 million.
The best of the blogworld sites for engaging in Funemployment.
FUNEMPLOYMENT: http://funemploymentblog.blogspot.com/
Gawker: http://gawker.com/5278875/get-funemployed
Trendliest: http://trendliest.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/funemployment/
Get Funemployment: http://zoomdoggle.com/2009/06/get-funemployment/
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