I checked out of the library the book in the photo above. The author Madeline Pendleton is the Founder & CEO of Tunnel Vision. The company is a million-dollar online clothing seller where Pendleton pays herself and every other employee the exact same livable salary.
According to Pendleton: productivity increased 40 percent when Microsoft Japan implemented a four-day work week without reducing pay for its employees.
In fact: “The more you work, the less accurate you are.” Overwork causes ill health too.
In I Survived Capitalism:
“One study by University College London found that employees working a 55-hour week faced a 33 percent increased risk of stroke. In another study, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found working 61-70 hours per week increased the risk of heart disease by 42 percent.”
Madeline Pendleton was a teen who gravitated to the punk rock culture. Today in the Tunnel Vision office you can hear music by the band Crass on the speaker.
Pendleton tells the reader:
“Start with revolutionary optimism. Believe a better world is possible. It’s the first step to getting there.”
Now go out and buy the book since I’ve quoted it in this review. Geared to Gen Z and Millennials it’s also for others who could use a shot of empowerment to opt out of chasing bigger better more and not getting hoodwinked by materialism into thinking capitalism as it exists today is acceptable.
Coming of age in the 1980s I too was spellbound by the punk rock ethos. A disc jockey on FM radio in college I played the Dead Kennedys and other radical bands on air.
Like Pendleton does I too believe a better world is possible. I’ve always been an optimist.
The difference is that like Pendleton asserts happiness in life comes down to having what you think is “enough.”
You could be a millionaire and still not be happy.
The root of what I’m attempting to do is create economic justice for individuals with disabilities like mental illnesses who too often are forced to live in poverty collecting government checks.
Should you be compelled to want to make things better you can do so in your own inimitable way too. We cannot let fear of what others will think of us stop us from acting to make possible the better world we think is possible.
One person’s small actions and another person’s small actions and everyone’s small actions working together can create the change we want to see.
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