Remembering the 40-hour workweek

[ysabetwordsmith]

 ... which is of course gone.  Life sucks, because nobody has time for life anymore.  It's all drudgery.  Often it doesn't even pay enough to live on.

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work week

[dialecticdreamer]

Remember when there was talk about the work week creeping DOWN to thirty hours a week?

It was at a time when /employees/ had an effective weapon against corporate exploitation. It was at a time when education was valued, and there was genuine concern that we would educate ourselves out of a ready supply of /unskilled/ labor for the unpalatable jobs that still have to get done. And it was at a time when inflation wasn't on the very CUSP of becoming hyperinflation, as it did in Germany after WW1. I'm finding far, far too many parallels in our modern America to that particular powder keg.

Re: work week

[ysabetwordsmith]

Mmm. I'm also seeing parallels to the Roman Empire during its collapse. I quit watching the news years ago when I realized that I no longer had anything to say about it other than "bread and circuses."