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>How do you think the West got rich in the first place? 30 hour work weeks? By profiting on other people’s labor time; not their own. But it also just happens
by extradego 8y ago
>How do you think the West got rich in the first place? 30 hour work weeks?
By profiting on other people’s labor time; not their own.
But it also just happens that, in the US, 30 hours is just the right amount to forgo providing benefits and job security, so your proposal was not that far off.
- ekianjo 8y ago> By profiting on other people’s labor time; not their own. Certainly not. During the early ages of industrialization, workers made a better living in the cities than in the countryside, but had to work a lot for it too.