Conspiracy Theory

Is anyone else sick of hearing the words, "Well, at least you have job". I am, big time.
It makes me wonder if this whole credit crunch thing is just a nasty ploy to make us all grateful for our crap little jobs and miserable little lives.
Sorry, I just have to go and get despair another beer, he's in for the long haul. He drinks Stella, by the way, and smokes rollies.
There, he's happy now, all sprawled out on the sofa.
Isn't it incredible how happy people are when they don't have to go to work? Do you remember that Monday when everyone in the south east of England was snowed in and couldn't get to work? It was like Christmas down here in Brighton. No, better than Christmas, it was like Pride or some other street festival.
At 7.30 in the morning there were adults out playing in the snow and taking pictures. The atmosphere was nothing short of glorious. So many people were smiling and laughing. There were dogs jumping around in the snow and full grown men making snow men.
It's rubbish that work brings people down so badly. It's a fact that we work the longest hours in Europe and what a miserable bloody bunch we are.
Is it a coincidence that this credit crunch seems to have hit America, Japan, Germany and the UK harder than anyone else? All the scarily hard working countries in other words. I'm sure placing like Spain and France are suffering too but it seems strange that these countries get along perfectly well taking it easy and we find it necessary to work silly hours and make ourselves miserable.
Does this sound like a conspiracy to anyone else? The only thing I can't figure out is who exactly benefits from all this because the rich buggers don't seem very happy either.