Regarding the News That “Email “Ding” Costs $70 Billion a Year”

Technology is turning us all into a bunch of time-wasters according to The Observer, which reports that the beep of an email alert alone is costing the US economy $70 billion per year.

[From Distraction: Email "Ding" Costs $70 Billion a Year]

You know what I say to this? The productivity of the American worker has been increasing for something like the past fifty years. For the past forty or so years, wages have been declining.

So, yeah. Fuck you, boss. I’m checking my email. Again.