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The world is all about trivialities today and escapism (let's not face reality). Especially in the West. Young men and women (in general) don't really mature until their mid 30s and some never do. We have an entire generation of people distracted every 30 seconds by fart apps, juvenile videos and self-photos in the bathroom. We need more engineers, doctors and lawyers and serious thinkers. Maybe I'm just getting olde…
After all, what is the point of the time we have, other than to enjoy it?
Um, the site is counting man-hours for YouTube videos, but I know there was more than just one guy working on the Empire State Building.
According to Wikipedia, there were 3,400 workers on the project, so the correct comparison would be 14,526 years to 6,800 years. And I bet I had a lot more fun adding my 15 minutes to Gangnam Style than I'd have adding 15 minutes to build the Empire State Building.
I'm betting that everyone on Earth went to the loo today, and also averaged 90 seconds.
Humanity wasted 19,889 years shitting today.
It took only 21 years to build the Taj Mahal in India!
What a waste.
And of course there's opportunity "cost". Presumably a fair fraction of that 14,000 years just replaced watching other Internet videos or other inanity instead. It's not like we'd reclaim 14,000 years of productivity by never having had Gangnam.
And people multitask, watching a video in one window while doing something else. Or just play it in the background for the music, not even watching the video. We wouldn't count every Winamp or iTunes play of the song as the same wasted time.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I haven't seen Star Wars (and neither did any of my friends) but I own 3 TVs. I watch a shitload of TV shows.
This article (and the phenomenon it descibes) is likely why the GP mentioned people who don't have TVs: http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention... So if you want to determine how much time you have 'wasted' related to the video, add up the time spent saying how you haven't seen it. Edit: There is no anger involved, other than maybe a little at being called angry. :) It is just pointing out an asp…
Of course, if you added all the numbers for all the stupid youtube videos, memes, worthless news articles, facebook posts, etc. together, then you'd probably get something terribly depressing. My guess is some tiny fraction of humanity actually sustains the rest of the species. They are the (much less than) 1%.