Sorry but our parents worked more than us and their parents worked more then them. Few people I know work weekends or don’t get two days a week off. Your parents worked normal 8 hours day then they went home and worked on their cars and houses and basically did another 4 hours a day doing of jobs. Their parents went one step further and built their own houses often or helped build them and grew alot of their own food.
We might work similar or more formal hours but we work far less informal hours that at any period in history. So that does not hold much water to me.
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
This is only true of certain segments of the working class, mainly the white collar workers located in Western countries. As we see wealth inequality increase globally, I don’t think it’s fair to say every single person is working less.
Also kids generally don’t have money to go to bars, restaurants, or music festivals.
Zippy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If course not every single person is working less but overall we are all working less. Quite a bit less.
ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 10 months ago
This is not true actually. There was a miss-interpreted study that calculated a lower average in working hours but that was because they didn’t consider that many women work part-time. Which lowered the average working hours.
When you look at households, though, the number of working hours is much higher. And that does have an influence.
I am an older person and I can still remember that my mother organised all social occasions of our family. We had big family gatherings regularly, activities in the local community and at schools, etc. This was all organised by the women who did not have jobs. Who is supposed to do all this today?