Unions are absolutely why we have 40 hour work weeks I wasn’t saying otherwise. Just that because of how our day works 8 hours of work was what people fought for. If we had days that were 48 hours things could be different and people could have fought for 10 hours days. Of course this is all hypothetical and we have no idea what people actually would have fought for.
The point isn’t about how our work week works though, it’s about how dumb it is to assume that other planets wouldn’t have possibly longer work weeks.
Interesting idea. Since we don’t see as well at night, we evolved to use that time to sleep. Were a day 48 hours in length we probably would have evolved to be awake twice as long, and then sleep twice as long. So proportionally we would probably be working the same amount.
Unions are absolutely why we have 40 hour work weeks I wasn’t saying otherwise. Just that because of how our day works 8 hours of work was what people fought for. If we had days that were 48 hours things could be different and people could have fought for 10 hours days. Of course this is all hypothetical and we have no idea what people actually would have fought for.
The point isn’t about how our work week works though, it’s about how dumb it is to assume that other planets wouldn’t have possibly longer work weeks.
Interesting idea. Since we don’t see as well at night, we evolved to use that time to sleep. Were a day 48 hours in length we probably would have evolved to be awake twice as long, and then sleep twice as long. So proportionally we would probably be working the same amount.