We are all lazy. (Motivation for No Internet Thursday)

In a recently released study, the average American worker admitted to spending 2.09 hours per day wasting time, citing personal internet usage as the #1 time-waster.

On the other hand, HR departments gave their permission to waste time. Just not that much time. "According to a Salary.com follow-up survey of Human Resource managers, companies assume that employees will waste 0.94 hours per day."

The difference in value from the amount of waste companies expect and the amount reported by employees is $759 billion!

I think the trick is to just skim a tiny bit off that $759 billion, and we'll all be rich. What if we tell people they should donate a dollar to us for each hour they waste? It'll be like a charity thing, to alleviate the guilt from screwing around at work. Total workers: 132 million. Hours wasted per person per year: 299. 132,000,000 people * 299 hours * $1 = $39,468,000,000.

It just took me fifteen minutes to write this, so I guess I owe the fund a quarter.