In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop
They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.
A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment.
This is hardly digging ditches, and this is a hobby not my attempt to become a 100K a year blogger. But like anything else you can become too focussed even obsessive. Take time with family and friends, watch spring begin as things green up and flower. Enjoy life.
photo credit: puroticorico
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“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy;
because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can
bear taxation.” —John Marshall
