Comment on The pipeline
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoDid the shorter work weeks and more vacation after automation materialize in socialist states?
Comment on The pipeline
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoDid the shorter work weeks and more vacation after automation materialize in socialist states?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Where did that happen, I’m curious about specifics
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day_movement
Just for starters. The modern concept of “Retirement” is also tied to socialist policy and politics. One of the first major reforms states implement after a socialist election or Marxist revolution is the implementation of retirement age. And those countries with the strongest socialist histories tend to have the lowest retirement ages and most generous pensions. Fully socialist states like Vietnam and China and South Africa have retirement in the 55-62 range. More socialist-leaning European/East Asian states like France, Denmark, Korea, and Japan have a retirement age in the 63-67 range. And fully captured capitalist systems like Uganda or Bangladesh or the undocumented worker pools of the Americas have no retirement for private workers whatsoever, working people to death.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
That movement is not at all specific to socialist states. If you read a bit further it even says how it originated in industrial revolution Britain and happened all over the world.