Productivity Cult

   "PRODUCE PRODUCE PRODUCE PRODUCE PRODUCE" --[1]capitalism

   Productivity cult (often connected to terms such as self improvement,
   personal growth etc.) is one of [2]modern [3]capitalist religions which
   praises human productivity above everything, even happiness, well being,
   sanity etc. Kids nowadays are all about "how to be more motivated and
   productive", they make daily checklists, analyze tables of their weekly
   performance, count how much time they spend taking a shit on the toilet,
   give up sleep to study some useless bullshit required by the current
   market fluctuation. Productivity cult is all about voluntarily making
   oneself a robot, a slave to the system that worships capital. As [4]Froge
   put it: "The world of self improvement gurus is a circlejerk of such
   magnitude it rivals several world religions".

   A human is living being, not a machine, he should live a happy relaxed
   life, dedicated to spending time with his close ones, raising children,
   enjoying the beauties of nature, exploring secrets of the universe,
   without stress; he should create when inspiration or a truly great
   necessity comes to him and when he does, he should take his time to
   carefully make the art great, without hasting it or forcing it.
   Productivity cult goes all against this, it proclaims one should be
   constantly spitting out "something", torturing and forcing himself,
   maximizing quantity on detriment of quality, undergo constant stress while
   suppressing rest -- that one should all the time be preoccupied with
   competitive [5]fight, deadlines, that art he creates is something that can
   be planned on schedule, made on deadline and assigned a calculated price
   tag to be an ideal consumerist product. If such stance towards life
   doesn't make you wanna puke, you most likely lack a soul.

   Do not produce. Create. Art takes time and can't be scheduled.

   The name of the cult itself [6]says a lot about it. While a name such as
   efficiency would probably be better, as efficiency means doing less work
   with the same result and therefore having more free time, it is not a
   surprise that capitalism has chosen the word productivity, i.e. producing
   more which means working more, e.g. for the price of free time and mental
   health.

   Productivity obsessed people are mostly idiots without the ability to
   think for themselves, they have desktops with "[7]motivational" wallpapers
   saying shit like "the word impossible doesn't exist in my dictionary" and
   when you tell them if it wouldn't be better to rather establish a society
   where people wouldn't have to work they start screeching "HAHAA THATS
   IMPOSSIBLE IT CANT WORK". Productivity maximalists bully people for taking
   rest or doing what they otherwise enjoy in moderation -- they invent words
   such as "[8]procrastination" to create a feeling of ever present guilt
   induced by doing what one truly enjoys.

   Productivity freaks are often the ones who despise consumers, i.e.
   brainless zombies that consume goods, but somehow don't seem to mind being
   producers, a similar kind of brainless zombies that just stands on the
   other end of this retarded system.

   One of the funniest examples of productivity cult gone too far is so
   called "[9]life couching" in which the aspiring producer robots hire
   bullshit cult leaders, so called "life couches", to shout at them to be
   more productive. At least in the past slaves were aware of being slaves
   and tried to free themselves. I literally want to [10]kill myself.

   Productivity is such a big deal because programmers are in fact actually
   getting exponentially less productive due to time needed to spend on
   [11]bullshit nowadays, on overcomplicated buggy [12]bloat and billions of
   frameworks needed to get basic things done -- this has been pointed out by
   [13]Jonathan Blow in his talk Preventing the Collapse of Civilization in
   which he refers to the video of [14]Ken Thompson talking about how he
   developed the [15]Unix operating system in three weeks.

   A considerable number of people are attracted to [16]suckless software due
   to its positive effects on productivity thanks to the elimination of
   bullshit. These are mostly the kind of above mentioned dumbasses who just
   try to exploit anything they encounter for [17]self interest without ever
   aiming for greater good, they don't care about Unix philosophy beyond its
   effects on increasing their salary. Beware of them, they poison society.

See Also

     * [18]motivation
     * [19]procrastination
     * [20]laziness
     * [21]antiwork

Links:
1. capitalism.md
2. modern.md
3. capitalism.md
4. froge.md
5. fight_culture.md
6. name_is_important.md
7. motivation.md
8. procrastination.md
9. life_couching.md
10. suicide.md
11. bullshit.md
12. bloat.md
13. jonathan_blow.md
14. ken_thompson.md
15. unix.md
16. suckless.md
17. self_interest.md
18. motivation.md
19. procrastination.md
20. laziness.md
21. antiwork.md