@doctorpain to Showerthoughts • 1 year agoWe're lucky that our bodies require sleep, otherwise our cultures would have us working 16-20 hour days.message-square137arrow-up11.45Karrow-down138
arrow-up11.41Karrow-down1message-squareWe're lucky that our bodies require sleep, otherwise our cultures would have us working 16-20 hour days.@doctorpain to Showerthoughts • 1 year agomessage-square137
minus-squaredeejay4amlink-5•1 year agoLiterally was a post with a picture of Henry Ford with the caption “this man brought us the M-F 9-5” and someone replied “boooo this man” But, even with sleep requirements, Henry Ford reduced it from the norm of 7 days a week, 12-15 hours. So I’d imagine that without sleep you’d just never go home.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•1 year agoI mean Ford did under threat of his wife leaving him. He literally had henchmen beating up union organizers.
minus-squareClarkFlankblastlinkfedilink2•1 year agoMy FIL’s father bolted machine guns on the roof of the Dearborn plant to deal with strikers. Henry Ford was not a good human.
minus-square@[email protected]cakelinkfedilink2•1 year agoWhile it was a change for the better back then, it was a century ago. It’s high time the work week gets reduced again while keeping the wages intact. It’s totally doable.
minus-square新星 [he/him/CPC bot]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year ago someone replied “boooo this man” You sure that wasn’t about the Anti-Semitism? It’s almost like the Great Man idea of history is a false one…
Literally was a post with a picture of Henry Ford with the caption “this man brought us the M-F 9-5” and someone replied “boooo this man”
But, even with sleep requirements, Henry Ford reduced it from the norm of 7 days a week, 12-15 hours.
So I’d imagine that without sleep you’d just never go home.
I mean Ford did under threat of his wife leaving him. He literally had henchmen beating up union organizers.
My FIL’s father bolted machine guns on the roof of the Dearborn plant to deal with strikers. Henry Ford was not a good human.
While it was a change for the better back then, it was a century ago. It’s high time the work week gets reduced again while keeping the wages intact. It’s totally doable.
You sure that wasn’t about the Anti-Semitism? It’s almost like the Great Man idea of history is a false one…