# Productivity Cult

*"PRODUCE PRODUCE PRODUCE PRODUCE PRODUCE"* --[capitalism](capitalism.md)

Productivity cult (often connected to terms such as *self improvement*, *personal growth*, *personal development* etc.) is one of [modern](modern.md) [capitalist](capitalism.md) religions which praises human productivity above everything, even happiness, well being, sanity etc. [Kids nowadays](kids_nowadays.md) are all about "how to get more motivated and productive", they make daily checklists, analyze tables of their weekly performance, count how often they take a [shit](shit.md), give up sleep to study some useless [bullshit](bullshit.md) required by the current market fluctuation. Productivity cult is all about voluntarily reducing oneself to a robot slaving to the system that worships capital. As [Froge](froge.md) put it: "The world of self improvement gurus is a [circlejerk](circlejerk.md) of such magnitude it rivals several world religions".

A human is [living being](life.md), not a machine. He should live a happy relaxed life, dedicated to spending his limited time with relatives and friends, upbringing offspring, admiring the beauties of nature, exploring secrets of the [universe](universe.md), ideally without stress and unnecessary suffering; he should create when inspiration or exceptional necessity comes and when he does, he should take his time to carefully produce good [art](art.md), without haste, force or disgust. Productivity cult shits on this whole concept. It proclaims man should be constantly spitting out "something", torturing and forcing himself, maximizing quantity on detriment of quality, undergo constant stress while dodging rest and peace of mind -- that one should all the time keep himself preoccupied with [competitive](competition.md) [fight](fight_culture.md), deadlines, that art he creates is something that can be planned on schedule, made on deadline and assigned a calculated price tag to be an ideal consumerist product. If such stance towards life doesn't make you wanna puke, you most likely lack a soul.

Do not produce. Create. Art takes time and can't be scheduled or forced.

The name of the cult itself [gives away a lot](name_is_important.md). Whereas a name such as *efficiency* would likely be more appropriate, as efficiency stands for doing less work with the same result and therefore having more free time, it is not a surprise that capitalism has chosen the word *productivity*, i.e. producing more which means working more, e.g. for the price of free time and mental health.

Those obsessed with productivity are mostly idiots lacking the ability to think independently, they sport desktops with "[motivational](motivation.md)" wallpapers preaching shit like "the word impossible doesn't exist in my dictionary!" and when you tell them if it wouldn't be better to rather establish a society where people wouldn't have to work they start screeching "HAHAA THATS IMPOSSIBLE IT CANT WORK". Productivity maximalists bully others for taking rest or doing what they otherwise enjoy in moderation -- they invent words such as "[procrastination](procrastination.md)" to create a feeling of ever present guilt induced by doing what one truly enjoys.

Productivity freaks love to hate on consumers, i.e. brainless zombies that just live to mindlessly consume goods, but themselves somehow don't seem to mind being producers, they can't seem to notice they're the same kind of brainless zombies who just happen to stand on the other end of this retarded chain. They live to produce excrement instead of eating it, in the end there is not much difference.

One of the funniest examples of productivity cult gone too far is so called "[life couching](life_couching.md)" in which the aspiring producer robots hire bullshit cult leaders, so called "life couches", to shout at them to be more productive. At least in the past slaves were aware of being slaves and tried to free themselves. I literally want to [kill myself](suicide.md) seeing this.

Truth also be told that productivity is such a big deal because **programmers are in fact getting exponentially less productive** due to spending time on more and more [bullshit](bullshit.md), overcomplicated buggy [bloat](bloat.md) and billions of frameworks needed to get basic things done -- this has been highlighted e.g. by [Jonathan Blow](jonathan_blow.md) in his talk *Preventing the Collapse of Civilization* in which he refers to the video of [Ken Thompson](ken_thompson.md) talking about how he developed the [Unix](unix.md) operating system in **three weeks**. Back in the day if a programmer wanted to draw pixel to the screen, he just wrote a byte to specific memory address and the pixel would light up; nowadays to light up a pixel on screen one has to install [OpenGL](opengl.md) drivers and development libraries and write 100 lines of boilerplate code, and that is yet nothing compared to the world of [web development](webdev.md), publishing mobile "[apps](app.md)" etc.

A considerable number of people are attracted to [suckless](suckless.md) software due to its positive effects on productivity thanks to the elimination of bullshit. These are mostly the kind of above mentioned dumbasses who just try to exploit anything they encounter for [self interest](self_interest.md) without ever aiming for greater good, they don't care about Unix philosophy beyond its effects on increasing their salary. Beware of them, they poison society.

## See Also

- [motivation](motivation.md)
- [procrastination](procrastination.md)
- [laziness](laziness.md)
- [antiwork](antiwork.md)