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> Industrialization led to us all having enough free time for vacations, the internet and hacker news. I believe you forgot to mention that it also led us to r
by sgu999 3y ago
> Industrialization led to us all having enough free time for vacations, the internet and hacker news.
I believe you forgot to mention that it also led us to ruin our environment in the process.
Not trying to argue that we should always oppose "progress", but maybe there was a better middle ground of shared prosperity a bit before Deliveroo, Amazon and Shein.
- hef19898 3y agoThe reason we have vacation, health care, a social net, <70 hours, Edit: no more (the pleasure of writing on mobile sometimes...) 6 day work weeks and all that is because workers (blue collar, as oppossed to pampered white collar like the majority of us on HN) fought tooth and nail for it. Thosen riviledges we enjoy are bot something that came automazically during the industrial revolution. And assuming it will different this time is a grave mistake.
- dotcoma 3y ago> <70 hours, 6 day work weeks… Where do you live? The standard, at least in Europe, is 40 hours and 5-day work weeks.