Once a year, every year, we카지노 게임 컬렉션re forced to think about taxes. It카지노 게임 컬렉션s mercifully short, because while filling out our return forms, searching for old receipts and crosschecking deduction numbers, it카지노 게임 컬렉션s abundantly clear how difficult, complicated and utterly boring the whole process is. Tax law is dense and repellant to the general public, so it came as a great surprise to many that until his death, David Foster Wallace, one of the most respected writers of his generation, had been working on a massive novel about the American IRS and the people who work there.
The Pale King, as the novel was called, expounds at length the heroic virtue of working quietly for year after year doing monotonous work that receives no applause. It caught the attention of Art Cockfield (Law카지노 게임 컬렉션93), a professor of tax law at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s and an admirer of Wallace카지노 게임 컬렉션s work. The novel, with its frequent asides about tax revisions, surprised Dr. Cockfield as much as anyone 카지노 게임 컬렉션 with publications to his name like 카지노 게임 컬렉션Examining Policy Options for the Taxation of Outbound Direct Investment,카지노 게임 컬렉션 he knows that tax law isn카지노 게임 컬렉션t for the faint of heart. When Dr. Cockfield was named the Fulbright Visiting Chair of Policy Studies at the 카지노게임사이트 of Texas at Austin, he took the opportunity to indulge his curiosity. In between writing more orthodox articles about tax policy, he went to the university카지노 게임 컬렉션s archives, home to Wallace카지노 게임 컬렉션s collected works, and dove in.
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The result is 카지노 게임 컬렉션David Foster Wallace on Tax Policy, How to Be an Adult, and Other Mysteries of the Universe,카지노 게임 컬렉션 a recently published article in the Pittsburg Tax Review that tackles one of The Pale King카지노 게임 컬렉션s major themes: boredom in the workplace and how to deal with it. Unusually for a tax law article, the work attracted significant media discussion, in The Independent and The Paris Review, among others. [Read it online.]
카지노 게임 컬렉션One of the great existential challenges of modernity is workplace boredom,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Dr. Cockfield. 카지노 게임 컬렉션For most of history, you worked from sunup to sundown and were probably too exhausted to feel bored 카지노 게임 컬렉션 being bored was a luxury.카지노 게임 컬렉션
But Dr. Cockfield says that Wallace believed there was something deeply important about boredom, and so he populated his novel with IRS workers whose work is so mind-numbing, they카지노 게임 컬렉션re given boredom-survival training.
카지노 게임 컬렉션What I think he카지노 게임 컬렉션s driving at is that work 카지노 게임 컬렉션 what we do all day 카지노 게임 컬렉션 is important to our identity. If we look at it as tedium, it crushes us, but if we decide to push through it, we can be much happier,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Dr. Cockfield says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션If you카지노 게임 컬렉션re going to do something every day, you should try to make it interesting.카지노 게임 컬렉션
For Wallace, it카지노 게임 컬렉션s the trying that counts. If we카지노 게임 컬렉션re thoughtful, present and make an effort to see the importance of a repetitive task, it becomes exhilarating. It카지노 게임 컬렉션s an outlook that requires customer service reps to regard every phone call as a chance to help a fellow human, and it카지노 게임 컬렉션s what makes scanning a tax return an act of love and justice, helping both individuals and the state get what they카지노 게임 컬렉션re owed.
카지노 게임 컬렉션The Pale King is saying that it카지노 게임 컬렉션s possible to get past the monotony. We can choose to look at the workday, not as some dreary horror, but as an adventure,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Dr. Cockfield. 카지노 게임 컬렉션We can be 카지노 게임 컬렉션information cowboys,카지노 게임 컬렉션 to borrow Wallace카지노 게임 컬렉션s term, rather than spinning cogs.카지노 게임 컬렉션
It may be heroic to push through tedium and there may be beauty on the far side of boredom, but even Dr. Cockfield admits it카지노 게임 컬렉션s not likely to get people excited about tax season.카지노 게임 컬렉션
