i'm probably asleep
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this may be an Unpopular Opinion (even on tumblr) but like the 8-hour workday is just Too Gotdamn Long
like even sitting in an office for eight hours a day isn’t particularly pleasant (or healthy, as we are beginning to see) but when we’re talking about doing *actual work* for that same amount time it gets pretty fucking brutal
doing literally *anything* (even leisure activities) for eight hours straight tends to be less than enjoyable but when we’re talking about things like construction, landscaping, factory work, and hell, even foodservice and retail, eight hours is a fucking ETERNITY
i might just be a lazy weak-willed bitch but honestly i think i’m not entirely wrong
this was being worked towards by leftist labor unions way back in the day after the time of FDRs new deal. people in the 40s and 50s were already starting to realize that we no longer actually needed an 8 hour work day or even a 5 day work week.
even with the comparatively primitive factory tech of the time we were already creating a huge amount of excess production back then and companies were making massive amounts of profit. So it already stood to reason that companies should either let their employees work less and thus each employee could work a shorter shift without lowering the yearly compensation of each employee, or in cases where businesses provide an active service they would shorten the shift but hire more people to cover the necessary operating time. but of course that would mean less money for people at the top so companies fought back hard and we ended up with nixon’s bullshit and so on and now its considered the norm for us to spend the vast majority of our lives doing work that really just amounts to waste.
The IWW realised this and were fighting for it all the way back in the 1930s. This is a take with a lot of historical and theoretical grounding, OP, so you’re standing in good stead.
I’d also like to add it’s also been studied and scientifically proven that after 6 hours, we have an extremely noticeable drop in productivity. Sweden saw nothing but benefits from a 6-hour work day, including worker productivity, happiness, and half the amount of sick-leave used when applied to nurses.
Just gonna add that the IWW is still kicking and basically anyone who is not an employer can join.
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it’s rotten work. especially to me especially if it’s you. I’ll fucking do it but christ alive.
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Had a lil narcoleptic episode today and my niece told my very worried friend who thought I had just died “Don’t worry! Auntie has Necromancy!” and then WALKED AWAY without explaining further leaving my confused friend like
“Either way, she’ll be fine!”
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“let me put this object some place obvious and inconvenient so im forced to deal with it” (grows around it like a tree root around a rock)
#baby i can ignore elephants in the room in ways you cannot imagine.
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it’s important to me that queendeath jokes come not from a place of online community or coming together to laugh at her but from a place of profound and viscous hatred for her and every member of her digusting family. for all the deaths by her hand and in her name, deaths that will only increase as the government cracks the eugenical whip.
dont just have fun with the jokes, enjoy the fact that that witch has died. a tyrant is dead. they will starve millions of us for her funeral. we cannot let her rest undefiled. this is what hatred is for, let it energize you. if you are in america or canada or somethere else, this will not affect you directly. remember those who will die this winter.
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