Why is this sub committed to undoing all of the good work that was done on reddit? This should not be a screenshot.
What are the chances
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buttnugget@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Snowclone@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Go read about the whites first contact with Polynesians, they literally stumbled on utopia and HATED it. They were FURIOUS these naked people surfed and sang and danced all day and farmed for about 15 seconds and had more food then they ever needed. They literally never heard about work, they had dance crew battles and picked their leaders by if they could do any cool tricks on the waves.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Just some important history, the 40 hour work week was developed as a labor concession in the automotive industry.
Most workers rarely work only 40 hours, especially when you include the on-call time when employees are expected to respond to call messages and emails.
Maybe we need to learn something from our grandparents and have another movement for 40-hour work weeks.
eezeebee@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 14 hours ago
Lol. I had these guys beat in terms of hours, and their job was no wear near as physical as mine was.
Now I get to be a desk jockey, and it’s fucking sweet. Gonna milk it, because I put my hours in.
Mac@mander.xyz 14 hours ago
Milking the fuck out of mine. It’s not quite a usual “desk job” but i spend a lot of time sitting at a desk.
eezeebee@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
Thanks for having a sense of humour about the meme. I’m also a desk jockey. Be sure to stretch frequently and take care of your back! The tension has a way of sneaking up.
cRazi_man@europe.pub 15 hours ago
40 hr work week would be great to be honest.
hOrni@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
So how fucked are You? 40h is actually quite a lot for Europe. In Poland I work 40, in Ireland I worked 39 and in Denmark 37.
bricklove@midwest.social 11 hours ago
And it took a bunch of labor strikes with brutal crack downs on them to even get to this point.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Maybe I am getting old and I read somewhere that as you get older you tend to become more politically conservative or maybe I am a workaholic, but complaining about the 40 hour work week comes off to me as being entitled fucking cunts.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 15 hours ago
When the 40 hour workweek was invented, most workers had a wife at home to do chores. Now that women are working, we should all be working 20 hours a week.
merc@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
That’s absolute bullshit. When the 40 hour workweek was “invented”, men were working 12 hour days in factories and their wives also worked. The wives sometimes worked in factories, often worked as domestic servants for richer people, or did home-based work. Home based work was often laundry or cooking for other people, not just their family. They’d sometimes also finish goods that were produced in a factory. Both partners were working 12+ days. And, while women did most of the home cooking and cleaning, it wasn’t as though that’s all they did.
This system ended because the workers used their power and went on strike. The result was the Haymarket Affair and is the reason that most countries, other than the US, celebrate a worker’s day on May 1st. The striking workers were attacked and beaten by the cops, and then because a bomb was thrown at a cop, the leaders of an anarchist group were rounded up and hanged after show trials.
Eventually the striking workers got what they were working for: an 8 hour day. But, it took decades after the Haymarket Affair for it to happen, and it wasn’t something that happened because everyone agreed it made sense. It was a long and bloody fight where that was the compromise that reduced the bloodshed.
If you want a 20 hour work week, join a union, prepare to go on strike and prepare to be beaten by the cops.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 2 hours ago
The capitalist economy did fine in the 1950s when the women were so bored they had to put random things in gelatin. Nothing bad would happen if we switched to a 20 hour workweek.
Blooper@lemmynsfw.com 4 hours ago
Nope. 40 each minimum to pay the mortgage.
Fucking kill me.
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
makyo@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
TALLER
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Be glad you weren’t born 100 years earlier with a 100 hour work week.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 12 hours ago
myrmidex@belgae.social 13 hours ago
Or be sad you weren’t born 10.000 years earlier with a 15 hour work week.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Personally I’d prefer to not get eaten by a cave bear.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Hey, it could be worse, we could have landed on Carboby-16, which has an 80h workweek.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
100% actually.
LeTak@feddit.org 12 hours ago
I hate the random black pixel in the down left corner. Go away, leave me alone!!!11!
LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
You didn’t end up here, but you are a product of this environment, and “you” couldn’t be born anywhere else.
witchybitchy@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
anthropic principle go brrrr
cosmOS@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Alan Watts go brrr
Fleur_@aussie.zone 13 hours ago
Could’ve lived in the galaxy where this meme was white text on a black background
saltesc@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Mine’s 35. 40 is illegal unless you’re a medical doctor. And legally I have to be paid overtime for every minute over but it’s my choice.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
That’s bizarro world. Here doctors work like 6 hours a week. Unless golf counts as work. Which it might now, there’s probably an executive order about that somewhere.
Mac@mander.xyz 14 hours ago
Make no mistake: This planet did not have a 40hr work week until we brought it here. We only have ourselves to blame.
On top of that, as another comment points out, the 40hr work week is the improvement on the system.
We really fucked itspunow@lemmy.myserv.one 16 hours ago
Damn bro just solved the Fermi Paradox with a Dilbert punchline
Anamnesis@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I have a 40 hour work week. And two more jobs than are ten hours work per week. And I need to do these, or I don’t have health insurance and can’t afford my rent.
LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Welllll the 40 hr work week is based off our 24 hour days and some planets have much longer than 24 hours in their day. So realistically some planets could have 60 hr work weeks. Plus we have no idea the governmental structure and ideology of other worlds and if they even allow you to stop working at all/you’re worked to death or if they have such an advanced society that you don’t even really have to work much at all.
Basically, this is kinda dumb.
my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 15 hours ago
Sort 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 14 hours 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.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
Imagine living in a world without being voluntold to do overtime every week.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
be the change you wanna be in the world
griff@lemmings.world 13 hours ago
spare the change you wanna have in your pocket
jaybone@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
spare the tire you want to change in this world
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Either it happens, or it doesn’t. I’d say that’s exactly 50/50.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Coulda been born on a planet of ants that just work until they die.