BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoWhoever invented the eight hour five day work week is Satan.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down11
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minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoHe’s not talking about “pre-agrarian;” even medieval peasants got more time off than we do today.
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-28 months agoYeah I don’t think so … We can both acknowledge progress and an extreme lack of what that progress should/could have been. All you have to do is look to countries like China and even Japan where people literally work themselves to death. Should we be working 40 hours a week? No but let’s not pretend that the situation has only gotten worse…
He’s not talking about “pre-agrarian;” even medieval peasants got more time off than we do today.
Yeah I don’t think so …
We can both acknowledge progress and an extreme lack of what that progress should/could have been.
All you have to do is look to countries like China and even Japan where people literally work themselves to death.
Should we be working 40 hours a week? No but let’s not pretend that the situation has only gotten worse…