This Labor Day, the new buzz is about balancing work with life.

It comes at a time when fewer people are employed than before the pandemic, and many of those who are employed are gaming the system by “working” from home in their PJs while surfing the internet and doing house work (oops, no, they pay others to clean their house). Productivity figures still lag pre-pandemic times.

Weirdly, they think even their part-time, disengaged, goal-less so-called work, in the absence of any accountability or supervision, is too much. It interferes with what they call life.

I think they protest too much. They’re not really trying to reduce their work – they’ve already done that. What they’re really doing is trying to justify what they’ve done, or, rather, failed to do.

They do this by glorifying laziness. They deem lazy people like themselves morally superior to hard-working people. The hard-working people just have work, but they – they! – have a . . . drum roll . . . LIFE!

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