vulned:santorumsoakedpikachu:cultural-fenianism:temple-cat:Vintage IWW 4 hour workday printsCan you
vulned:santorumsoakedpikachu:cultural-fenianism:temple-cat:Vintage IWW 4 hour workday printsCan you imagine? Would give us so much more rest and free time.The average office worker is only productive for 3 hours a day.Every article talking about this study talks about how bosses can squeeze more labor out of workers, or how workers can squeeze more labor out of themselves, but the reality is that the human brain only has so much capacity to focus on unpleasant tasks, and people generally won’t work more than that without the threat of force (like in manual and service industry jobs where work is easily quantified and workers are being monitored all the time to make sure they don’t slack off; the threat of being fired and losing one’s ability to eat is the threat of force). People in hunter-gatherer societies do about that same amount of work.@whynotrobinThis is all completely true, and the eight hour work day literally exists for the express purpose of robbing you of your time and making you miserable so that you’ll spend all of your money in some vain attempt to soothe and satisfy yourself in the limited free time that you do have. See also: parents having no time to spend with their children, and throwing money at them in lieu of the affection they’re too tired and busy to give. It’s got nothing to do with being productive or getting work done. -- source link