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my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 3 weeks agoSort of, but but really. You’re right that historically the daylight hours set an upper limit on the amount of work that can be done per week for most types of work, but that limit is far higher than 8 hours over 5 days. The 40 hour work week is based on unions fighting for a 40 hour work week. If it wasn’t for the unions you’d be working all day every day except Sunday, for religious reasons.
That might change over the next few decades too, the current fight is for a 4 day work week and studies are showing promising results there.
LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
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.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Interesting idea. Since we don’t see as well at night, we evolved to use that time to sleep. We’re 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.