Sit down in front of a computer

Sitting down in front of a keyboard and a monitor is indeed a great accomplishment.

While it may be sissy and it may be bad for our health, the success in getting over 100 million Americans and many times more non-Americans to sit in front of a computer for more than 40 hours a week is an extraordinary achievement.

Less than sixty years ago, most workers worked standing up and they used their bodies to do much of their work (women in the home included). Slightly more than a century ago, a large proportion of the work force worked outdoors, many in farming and related food production.

In roughly a century, commerce has changed the way we physically work and increased our productivity to the point where one worker today produces what it took seven workers to produce 100 years ago. Seven times as much.  I'm glad the boring school system puts such a high priority on students sitting still in class with their mouths shut.

Still, the growth in productivity per capita would have been much greater if it had not been restrained by a terrible American banking system, unbelievable political ignorance, more than half a century with little foreign competition, Eurocentric immigration laws and an hereditary upper class with too much power.