[lbo-talk] U.S. religious ID: "none" makes a big gain

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>On the downside, if American workers are secular in practice (whatever 
>>religion they identify with), that's probably because they don't have much 
>>free time in any case, and, for what little free time they do have, they 
>>barely have enough energy left to do anything except zone out in front of 
>>a television
>
>According to a survey released by Gallup earlier in the week, compared to 
>Canadians & Brits, Americans don't profess to be too unhappy about their 
>work burdens (though, of course, the socially desirable answer is to say 
>just that).

Please.  One of the worst changes in the workplace in my lifetime has been 
the emergence of an American Stakhanovite mentality, where workers 
positively gloat about the endless hours they devote to their jobs.  It's 
one of the things that most makes me feel I'm surrounded by pod people.

Carl