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Whoever invented the eight hour five day work week is Satan. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

You okay? I wrote about pre agrarian societies and you went with a semi hinged rant about capitalism and billionaires?

If you meant to respond to my point though, I'm super curious how you think a society where almost everyone spends their work time getting food ALSO develops the luxuries of modern life, like a washing machine. Everyone work 2 jobs? That seems pretty against the whole free time thing. So, uhhh, help from Aliens or Jesus?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Your post was a view point that we couldn't work less while maintaining modern conveniences and luxuries, at least that's how it's coming across.

    If your point was simply that in pre-modern times they didn't have what we have today and that it was due to working too much for sustaining life to develop, then ok I guess. Maybe I misread the thread. The main post was about the fact we're working too many hours in our current society though so.. yeah.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I really appreciate that response and I think it's a good example of what I love about Lemmy.

    In my head, the thread was about OP's addition to the image, which was "whoever invented the 8 hour 5 day work week is Satan." Where, ehhh, 8 hour work day feels like an improvement on most of history.

    Original image, I more agree with you. I think we do have technological surplus that could be better allocated towards labour/leisure/all our modern conveniences. But, I am keenly aware it is capitalism/civilization/whatever that got us here.

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