Paul FairieHappy Labour Day!
Bruce Elrick@paulisci
Psyche!
Maddad ☑️Florida...😂 😂 😂
Now they can't even get a water break in some counties...
Matt Tearle31-hour week? Really? They didn’t want to go with something less… prime? You work 6 hours a day, but one extra on Thursday because Thursdays, amirite?
Graham Sutherland / PolynomialAh of course. Silly me, thinking it was something weird.
agatha 
@gsuberland @mtearle @paulisci i want to say that these 4 comments made me laugh uncontrollably so thank you for that
nicolas ⁂
Ulrik Nyman ⬡@paulisci In Denmark we have a 37 hour work week.
Unionize!
Unionize!
aerique@paulisci The future we could have had.
Emil Jacobs - Collectifission@paulisci this is capitalism’s “we have communism by 1980!”.
Nini@paulisci Who keeps telling us about this predicted shortened work week length? Moreover, why hasn't these prognostications come to pass if they were so evident?
Kirils
Kent Brewster@paulisci possibly relevant to your interests: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nobody-wants-to-work-anymore/
reinierl@paulisci How is the labor theory of value generally dismissed in economics if it's so clear that all these "labour-saving" innovations also remove any value from what they automatically create? Back in the fifties my grandfather made a living from a dairy farm with 12 cows. With modern farm machinery you can do that in your spare time, but you'd also make only pocket money.
human curation@paulisci one of the aims of our startup incubator is for most people's workweeks to be 20 hours or less
Grant 🇺🇦ArmUkraine🇺🇦@paulisci 20 seems about right :)
LukefromDC@paulisci It is believed by some researchers that before the settler colonialists hit Turtle Island, Indigenous people with no bosses only had to work about 20 hours a week. That includes hunting, small scale agriculture, building lodges, weapons (bowmaking can take a while, I've done it myself), everything.
When the settlers got here, they worked over twice the hours for essentially the same material standard of living. Remember, at that time they didn't have electrical devices, internal combustion engines, central heat and AC or even running water either. Yet they worked their asses off for nothing more than anyone else had.
Luna chan@paulisci What happened it seems the future we were promised has been stolen?
ehurtley 
@paulisci That deescalated quickly!
Raven667@paulisci some have achieved this, in the form of only actually working 20h or less, even if they 'look busy' for 40.
mvyrmnd 
@paulisci Clearly something went wrong in the 80's - I'm still at 35 hours.
Claudius
KanaMaunaNot only has the number of work hours not decreased in decades, they won't even let us decrease the number of non-working commute hours.
Rica Tatiana 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷🏳️🌈@paulisci I'm lucky if I can get a 1 hour lunch break
FrancesFish@paulisci Keeping 40 hours for working one week is humane enough, according to the current situation
Rune 🇨🇦@paulisci
Interesting that in the wake of all of the Chat GPT/GenAI news, I haven't seen a single "fewer work hours" related headline, but lots of "it's taking everyone's jobs" headlines.
Interesting that in the wake of all of the Chat GPT/GenAI news, I haven't seen a single "fewer work hours" related headline, but lots of "it's taking everyone's jobs" headlines.