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Just some important history, the 40 hour work week was developed as a labor concession in the automotive industry.
Most workers rarely work only 40 hours, especially when you include the on-call time when employees are expected to respond to call messages and emails.
Maybe we need to learn something from our grandparents and have another movement for 40-hour work weeks.
Men were able to work 40 hours back then because women were relegated to unpaid domestic labor and childcare.
When women entered the workforce, these expectations were slow to change. So now, everyone gets to work 40+ hours and a few dozen more at home. And that’s the best case scenario where both partners shared the mental load. Bonus points if they have a kid which is a 24/7 job.
In a sane world, with double the people working you would expect their hours to be halved. But that will never happen so long as corporations continue to disguise the exploitation of workers as ‘feminism’.
feminism: now women can get exploited too
Plenty of countries where 35-40h/week, or even less, is the norm (and I mean it as no “not counted” extra hours)
Coulda been born on a planet of ants that just work until they die.
Ants are working together for the same goal though. Fuck this “can’t complain cause others have it worse” attitude.
See: AntZ by/with Woody Allen.
What?
Where did I lose you?
The part where you made a serious comment about a completely ridiculous fictional premise that was never intended to be serious.
People make “can’t complain cause others have it worse” comments all the time, by forgetting the “/s” alls you’re doing is feeding into that.
How many hours do you think the work week should have?
It’s not that you can’t complain because others have it worse. It’s that any number (even 40) is just made up. If we worked 10, people would still complain.
- Retire at 50. Housing, clothes, food, water, power, should all be basic rights.
People will always complain.
Ok man.
Ants get shit done. Humans can barely function when you get more than 2 dozen of us together.
Yeah but we didn’t end up on the one with giant alien spiders, thank god
Go read about the whites first contact with Polynesians, they literally stumbled on utopia and HATED it. They were FURIOUS these naked people surfed and sang and danced all day and farmed for about 15 seconds and had more food then they ever needed. They literally never heard about work, they had dance crew battles and picked their leaders by if they could do any cool tricks on the waves.
You sparked my interest, so I did go read about it. I didn’t find anything like what you explained though. Do you have any sources?
Idk, you might need a library, or a Somoan over 40 to get the info.
Weren’t polynesians a bunch of warrior tribes that pretty much hunted some pacific birds down to extinction and when they got their hands on gunpowder weapons one tribe pretty much obliterated every other tribe?
You can’t lump them all together there were very different outcomes of multiple islands and cultures.
Pretty sure it was the surf utopia thing.
This didn’t happen
Why is this sub committed to undoing all of the good work that was done on reddit? This should not be a screenshot.
all of the good work that was done on reddit
wtf buttnugget?
Even though you gave me reddit lowbar, I’ll reply in earnest. Some of the great progress that was made on reddit was things like banning images of text, banning shower thoughts like “this water is warm”, and greatly limiting low effort garbage commenting and bot spam.
It’s the best our stupid species could come up with after 200,000 years.
To be fair it used to be 60
Hey, it could be worse, we could have landed on Carboby-16, which has an 80h workweek.
I wish it was only 40 hours
Daaaaaaamn this is fire. Rhetorically.
It’s a simulation. The nothingness of space is used as an isolation barrier to keep us feeling important. Just another guard rail to keep the experiment going.
100% actually.
Well given the low likelihood that any of them have intelligent life the fact that you’re able to ask means the chances are probably 100%
What if all those other galaxies are just like us? Like totally different, but also exactly the same. How terrible would that be?!
Since when do we have a 40 hour work week? I don’t know anyone who works only 40 hours
Some European countries have a 40 hour work week maximum (volunteered overtime is allowed).
The US is still living in the 1800s when it comes to labor rights so we don’t have the freedom of a living wage for 40 hours of work.
Me
Do I know you?
Maybe.
