• UnequalExchange
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    1 month ago

    THATS THE THING I KEEP TELLING PEOPLE.

    The 40 hour work week is archaic and barbaric and it prevents you from being a parent who actually enjoys parenting because. you dont have enough time to decompress from parenting by ‘not-parenting’

    The truth is that you ARE rich in time. You may not know ot but its true. Think about it: Those husbands and wives or partners who are parrents come home after busting their asses from a 40-48 or more (who knows how much overitme they had to work) hour workweek…and then…they gotta take care of their kids on the weekend and when they come home on thr weekdays. They hardly have time for each other and for themselves. Wasnt there a study posted here a couple weeks ago that showed the 8 years after a relationship producrd a baby that is when they were least appy? Of course they were least happy at that time. They were slowly growing apart from each other, and their kids, and even from themselves cause of their vampiric job

    The 40 hour work week was adopted during a time when one income was enough tl support a family so it was typically one partner that would stay home and fix and clean the house and raise the children and help them weith homework… We dont live in such times anymore…

    Even our acceptance of the 40 hour work week in my opinion was completely wrong . The ‘40 hour work week’ doesnt include meal prep time, commute time, other bullshit we gotta take care of cause of work like certificate reapplications, learning new skills related to the job, etc…

    Nowadays humans have the technologies and ability to keep society running while working faaaar less time. And we should be. Hasnt anyone here read those stupid stories of people finding new ways to waste time at their vampiric 40 hour work week job? THIS is by design. To keep you shut in a building full of telephone and office talk gossip cacophony, keep you unimaginative , keep you tired, and keep you disconnected from your self and your loved ones and even your coworkers.

    People know that we need to change this BUT as usual they wont do anything about this until things becorm apocalytically bad… so CHEERS to the apocalypse everyone 🫡🥳