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.
On a tip from the MaryHunter. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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Posted by Van Helsing on June 5, 2009 1:22 pm
» Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Anti-Capitalism, Economy, News, Social Engineering, Socialism, Welfare, bailouts, liberalism
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“Funemployment,” obviously, only lasts as long as there are enough productive people willing to support that kind of idiocy. Once the producers themselves go on “funemployment,” the whole edifice comes crashing down.
I can already see this variation of an old Soviet joke going around in the future:
“Obama pretends that there’s no unemployment problem, so we’ll pretend that we still have a job.”
Michigan’s April stats were 12.9%. I can’t wait to see what the May stats show….