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> Let's work 90 hours a week and retire at 80, imagine the growth, big numbers get bigger makes bald monkey happy that is all you heard in the 80-90s, people o
by xela79 1y ago
> Let's work 90 hours a week and retire at 80, imagine the growth, big numbers get bigger makes bald monkey happy
that is all you heard in the 80-90s, people over the pond showing off how many hours per week they worked. like... how is that something to be proud of?
So wauw, you spend 12hrs+ per day working , had no free evenings, zero paid holidays. And that is supposed to impress who?
please.
- lm28469 1y agoWhat happened in the 80s too is that politics told us automation would bring a 3 days work week, which never materialized. But now we have to trust the same people, moved by the same greed, that this time it'll be different
- jstanley 1y ago40 years on, how many of them truly are the same people?
- piva00 1y agoIt's the same breed of people, bred from the same system, not literally the same people but the people following on the footsteps. Greed is the constant. Hell, it has been going much longer than only 40 years ago, on "In Praise of Idleness" Bertrand Russell talked about how industrialisation with its automation should be helping workers to work less 90 years ago.
- lm28469 1y agoThey're cloning them in the same schools, that's why we have 30 years old full blown boomers