for the sake of fine cheesies

Here is something to think about to depress you(unless you are a movie star). Place an estimate on how much money a stranger would have to give you to have you sit in one place for an hour. Let’s suppose you could not read or talk or anything, you’d have to just sit. How much money? $5? $20? $50? More??

Now consider having plans to go out some evening. How much money would a stranger have to pay you to give up those plans and go sit in his or her house. Again, you’re not going to be doing anything, just sitting there. So how much to give up an evening’s plans? $50? $100? More?

Now, consider how much money you’d have to be paid, by a stranger of course, to stop whatever you were doing out on the street, and put some papers in alphabetical order for one hour. How much to dig holes in their lawn for one hour?

Now think about how much you are paid to do whatever you do all day. If a stranger interrupted your free time to request that you do whatever your job normally is, would you accept to do it for the hourly rate you are actually paid?

You see, I just got a $3 raise. I appreciate it and I get it pretty easy for what my job is. Lots of people work much harder than me and get half of what I get. Yet, if a stranger were to offer me that same rate, even to just sit for an hour, I’d hesitate. It might not even be worth it to me. If a stranger asked me to sit for 7 hours for that rate instead of having free time, I’d tell them to go take a munch of a dogs’ hotdog hole. If a stranger asked me to do actual work for him or her on my free time for that same rate, I’d laugh riotously at their deluded hopes and keep on truckin’, into the sunset.

So there it is. I imagine it’s the same for you. Look at us chumps, working for the “man”, not getting anywhere near what an hour of our precious time and effort is worth. All so we can afford to buy the finest cheesies(or soy-based-cheese-like-productsies) money allows.