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Even if someone spends half the time watching YouTube, if all the work is done… who cares?

They care because it means you could be doing even more work in the time allotted.

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It’s the “if you have time to lean you have time to clean” of the white collar world, why would they be paying the peasants if the toil isn’t visible

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Another way of putting it is that it’s the “I paid for X, I want to use all of the X” of the upper management world.

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These people are salaried. They don’t owe companies hours.

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“I paid for this traffic light, therefore I want to use all three bulbs at once”

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capital sucks up all the surplus value of your labor. you don’t get to keep it.

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