I’d love to have a 32 hour week.
It’s been a struggle lately to get even 16 hours of work a week lately.
Turns out, problems are more complex than just what goes on in the US
you can have a 32 hour work week but you get paid for working 32 hours
I’m so fucking done, it will take 4 years for us to get a 40 hour workweek and yeah that’s great but it’s a fucking joke
Gracias Sheimbaum
leave your ai to cover for 8 hours. they’ll love it
So I used to work in industrial automation, and I did see a factory owner buy a robot to automate a task because it was a brain meltingly simple task that was unpopular with his workers. The robot was slower, and more expensive than a human.
It was taking a small piece of metal from a stack and putting it in a machine and pushing a button (not sure if he had a two-hand-no-tie-down set up) then taking the now bent piece of metal out of the machine and putting it on a stack. I think they had about 8 hours production per week of demand for the part.
He didn’t do it out of the kindness of his heart but because he got tired of paying recruiters to find people willing to do it.
Yup.
Workers have to fight hard for every little thing, which is why it’s so sad to see us back pedal by electing born rich anti-worker dipshits into the highest offices in the land. We’re losing things that will take years and a lot of struggle to get back.
They didn’t just hand us the forty hour workweek. You can thank the early unions for that. Organizations like this.
Exactly. Productivity gains don’t magically turn into free time for workers unless people organize and demand it.
The grabbing hands grab all they can
All for themselves - after allThis, I feel, is the real message behind Animal Farm
Worse, there’s actual practical evidence that a 4-day workweek for the same pay as the 5-day one still makes the company more money and the workers happier and healthier, but adoption is still glacial.
*fucking
There is no war but class war.
US labor laws and income distribution are pathetic.
32!? I was thinking like…4?
