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Shialac@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I fucking hate capitalism and its demand that everyone has to work a fulltime job.
Job automation could and should be a good thing. We as a society should aspire to get rid of as many work hours as possible to actually do the things we like. Instead we are being forced to do shittier and shittier things because we are nothing more than slaves to some billionaires
assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 8 months ago
honey_im_meat_grinding@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Back in the good old days of the Stone Age we used to work 4-6 hours per day, based on the anthropological evidence we have (as Historia Civilis points out[1]). That seems to be the amount of work humans naturally slot into when left alone. Instead we work 8+ hours per week. In European countries like the Netherlands, and the Nordics, for example, that’s slightly below 7 hours per day, so they’re getting close to the range we used to work. But a 4 day work week still seems like an almost utopian idea to achieve politically, despite all the insane productivity gains we’ve made over the last 100 years thanks to automation that make even a four day work week seem laughable - we should probably be thinking of a three day work week at this point.
[1] www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvk_XylEmLo
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