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6 days a week working 9am to 9pm? When do they go to the grocery store or even have time to spend at home?
by sgt 7y ago
6 days a week working 9am to 9pm? When do they go to the grocery store or even have time to spend at home?
- wutbrodo 7y agoPerhaps they're more likely to have traditional family roles? Leaving aside extended families, I'd find it hard to imagine that a nuclear family unit could sustain both adults working a schedule like that.
- retrac 7y agoThis is very true. The 12 or even 16 hour workdays we hear of in the early industrial era in the West seem incomprehensible. Until you realize that the factory complex was essentially their whole life and community. Don't need to walk far to work, or go shopping, or spend time cooking, when you live on-site in the dorms and your wife works in the company canteen. And you get most of your paycheques deducted for that privilege, so going anywhere else is mostly theoretical anyway even if you had time off.
- sixstringtheory 7y agoThere's a great 99PI episode about something like this: Fordlandia (https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/fordlandia/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/fordlandia/)
- userbinator 7y agoExtended family, yes. In China it's far more common for them to live together.
- xnyan 7y agoOr, let your relationships fall apart because you are working essentially 100% of the time you are not sleeping eating and fulfilling the other basic responsibilities of life.
- intopieces 7y agoEverything is delivered in the big cities in China, so no worries there on the food / other services part.