• @JamesFire
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    -46 months ago

    technological advancement doesn’t allow you to work less,

    It literally has (When forced by unions). How do you think we got the 40-hr workweek?

    • @pyre
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      136 months ago

      it was forced by unions.

      • @JamesFire
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        -16 months ago

        In response to better technology that reduced the need for work hours.

        • @pyre
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          no, in response to human beings needing rest. the need for work hours was drastically reduced since, but nothing changed. corporations don’t care, they just want you to work until you die, no matter how much you contribute none of them is gonna say “you know what, that’s enough, maybe you should work less”. wage theft keeps getting worse.

          • @JamesFire
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            -16 months ago

            Yes, but that’s not because technology doesn’t reduce the need for working hours, which is what I argued against.

            • @pyre
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              16 months ago

              no? no one argued tech doesn’t reduce the need for working hours. read it again.

    • @mriormro
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      116 months ago

      That wasn’t technology. It was the literal spilling of blood of workers and organizers fighting and dying for those rights.

      • @JamesFire
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        -26 months ago

        And you think they just did it because?

        They obviously thought they deserved it, because… technology reduced the need for work hours, perhaps?

        • @pyre
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          26 months ago

          no, they deserve it regardless.

          • @JamesFire
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            16 months ago

            Which has nothing to do with whether technology reduces the need for working hours, which is what I was arguing.

    • @nomous
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      66 months ago

      How do you think we got the 40hr work week?

      • @JamesFire
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        -26 months ago

        Unions fought for it after seeing the obvious effects of better technology reducing the need for work hours.

        • @nomous
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          46 months ago

          Stop after your first 4 words and you’d be correct but all your other words are just your imagination and you trying to rationalize what you’ve already said.

          • @JamesFire
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            6 months ago

            Obviously I’m trying to rationalize what I already said, that’s how an argument works.

            I am arguing that better technology reduces the need for working hours.

            That’s it.