​Fuel Wheels and Three-Day Weekends

You will be very happy to know that Memorial Day is just around the corner, which means millions of Americans have a three-day weekend in which to indulge their every pleasure. You have probably been thinking about this for quite some time and may have even been planning on what you are going to do over the holiday weekend.

Some of you will go camping, many of you will throw a barbecue party and there will be those who will shop great deals on truck wheels and sit by the door waiting for their Fuel wheels to be delivered.

But then, Tuesday rolls around all too quickly and you find yourself back at work and depressed because your next three day weekend isn't until Labor Day. And as you mope around at your workstation being completely unproductive, you wonder what it would be like if every weekend was a three-day weekend. You might be onto something there.

The Costs of Working So Much

There are several studies that show the cost of working long hours. Working too much can increase the risk of a stroke, coronary heart disease and even diabetes. But there is more to consider.

When you spend long hours and weeks working, you lose time with both family and friends and start to lose the ability to do the things in life that you value and cherish most. Our lives get too tied up in the things we have to do at work. After a day, or week, of answering silly emails, talking to clueless customers and staring at a computer screen for endless hours, our capacity to realize our full potential is seriously curtailed. We want nothing more to do than go home and flop on the couch and turn the television on and be done and dumb.

Work does not set us free, rather it makes it more difficult to realize ourselves. This all speaks to the need to work less and drive our trucks more.

What Stops Us

There have been great advances in technologies the last century, many that pushed up productivity. But this does not mean work hours have decreased. It’s funny because we are working long hours and harder, but the majority of the gains goes to the owners of capital, in most cases at the cost of workers who suffer flatlined pay.

This lack of progress for the typical American worker can be blamed of our capitalistic ideals that directly influences ideology as well as power. That is, the effects of consumerism have created a powerful force that feeds on long working hours and low pay.

Simply put; working shorter hours would mean less money for those with the most power. In turn, this would mean less money for the worker, who would then have an even more difficult time buying the latest technological gadget or latest style of clothing.

That’s something to think about as you enjoy the upcoming three day weekend.