2nd May 2012, 07:06 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:I can't speak for the whole of Europe, but it is certainly a very common phenomena here in Norway..... I suspect one of the reasons is that many archaeologists are at heart 'hobbyists' (not meant in a derogatory sense) and whereas some people can switch off their daily grind (eg bankers, coal miners, brain surgeons), hobbyists have very blurred boundaries between where work stops and playtime begins. I personally think there is nothing wrong with that and suspect that many people 'exploited' in this manner would still be putting in the same number of hours even if they stopped mid-pursuit and deliberately changed from wearing a hat marked 'WORK' to a hat marked 'PLAYTIME'....
Yeah thats fine, but ifyou were to build an economy on people having fun, most people would throw in the towel as soon as they realised they were being taken for a ride on an economy scale.
You might as well recall a class system, by labours own demise.
As for hours on site
Some people work (manually) harder than others as well as driving, whilst others deal with considerable stress levels and drive.
Fun neither of those positions are, so where do you think the idea of garnering support from encouraged ignorance is benificial to the minutia of the issue?
Then on top of that there is the issue of living and living, whilst there are additional elements with regards to appropriate social time in extended fun time.
No simple answers, as easy as an argument can be compiled into logical nonesense, where is the considered detail?