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Highly doubt it. Historically, working time has gone down, not up. https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours#working-hours-per-worker-have-declined-after-the-in
by tgsovlerkhgsel 5y ago
Highly doubt it. Historically, working time has gone down, not up.
https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours#working-hours-per-worker-have-declined-after-the-industrial-revolution https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours#working-hours-per-w...
I see no reason why longer days would reverse the trend. Most countries have legal limits on hours/week, and these would have to be raised, which would be immensely unpopular.
- heavyset_go 5y agoThe industrial revolution was an aberration when it comes to how many hours people worked. For example, prior to the industrial revolution, people worked roughly 1,440 hours a year[1]. During the industrial revolution, that shot up past 3,200 hours of working a year. Today, in the US, the number of hours worked per year has stayed relatively stable since the 1970's. People work about 1,800 hours a year which, while lower than during the industrial revolution, is still more than people historically did in the past. [1] https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_...