You don't NEED a weekend. The concept is barely 100 years old. - eviltoast
  • The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Look this if gonna piss some people off

    But you don’t NEED shareholders

    The concept is barely 400 years old

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    11 months ago

    I wonder what they do for a job, and i wonder how many hours a week they work.

    I would imagine its less then 38 a week.

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    11 months ago

    You don’t NEED to wash your hands between surgeries, the practice is only ~100 years old

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        11 months ago

        I’m glad, but you’re saying it like you’d expect that everyone follows her lol. There are in fact literally tens if not hundreds of millions of content creators that I don’t follow 😁

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          11 months ago

          It’s just one of those examples that helps us realize how extremely easy it is to misinterpret information without the appropriate context, yet we consume endless context-less content and all the time our brains assume we know the meaning and assigns some kind of judgement on the information or person, but without that appropriate context we really have no idea whatsoever, but we’re constantly building a worldview based on what we’re reading and seeing even though we really aren’t getting it right at all. Isn’t that just a mind fuck?

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    11 months ago

    Anyone who beleives this clearly hasn’t worked a 6 or 7 day work week. That shit grinds you down until there’s nothing left

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      11 months ago

      I used to work as a utility locator. I was the guy who would mark the lines in your yard when you “Call 811 before you dig”.

      The company I worked for was so badly managed that I’m shocked they haven’t gone under or been sued out of existence, but it may have just been this one regional office. They expected everyone to work 12 hours per day, six or seven days a week, and when it was your turn on call, you would be working all night. It will wear your mind down like you wouldn’t believe. I worked there for a year. I almost lost my wife. A long-time friend died, and they told me I couldn’t go to his funeral. (I went to the funeral. I had figured out they couldn’t afford to fire anyone) I very nearly crashed the company truck a few times from lack of sleep.

      What finally made me see sense and go find literally any other job was one night I was trying to get to sleep, and there was a police helicopter flying back and forth over my neighborhood. They were flying around when I had to go out on a call at 11 pm, and when I got back home at 1 am they were still flying around. I found myself seriously considering shooting the helicopter out of the sky just so I could get an hour of sleep. I don’t want to hurt anyone. I don’t want to shoot at anyone. But I had not been able to get more than a half hour of sleep for two days and I wasn’t thinking clearly.

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    11 months ago

    You don’t NEED anything besides air, water, sufficient nutrition, and protection from extreme environments.

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      11 months ago

      Everything about it is perfect. The shitty take, using threads, the cringy profile picture.

      I wouldn’t be surprised if it was fake, but it probably isn’t.

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    11 months ago

    If you remove free time, people spend less money on entertainment, trips, restaurants, museums… Whole economies depend on that.

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      11 months ago

      It’s not about the economy, it’s about widening the class gap and inflicting suffering.

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    11 months ago

    My mind goes to that snippet going around some time ago about peasants having 100+ holidays a year.

    Like, yeah. People need ample time off. Even feudal lords knew their surfs needed time off.