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it could also just be that their planet takes 3 years to orbit their sun and a day lasts 2 weeks, so the workweek could be like 560 hours over there

I wonder if ants and bees get flooded with endorphins when they’re endlessly working so 80-100 hour weeks would be just fine for them. We’re apes, we’re supposed to eat berries and weird mushrooms and procreate in the forest, we’re not designed to work any harder than we have to to do those two things.

At least the oxygen is free. For now.

Have you informed Kermit about this?

I'm confused, what about this post makes it about USA? Surely (inb4 don't call me Shirley) there must be several countries with 40 hours work week.

And in all honesty should have fought for a 4 day workweek right after.

And, if you/OP want it to be less, you need to join / start / contribute to the labor movement and let everyone you meet in it know your new goal.

And now we're on a speed run to prove that no victories are permanent.

In most countries it's a lot more. Throughout human history it has typically been a lot more.

Getting the work day down to 8 hours required violent riots that resulted in bombs being thrown at the police and people being hanged after quick show trials. And even once the work day was reduced to 8 hours, it was a while before the work week was reduced to only 5 days. Interestingly, the US initially led the world in reducing the length of the work week. But, these days it has been completely captured by oligarchs and unions are the weakest of any country in the developed world, so it has fallen far behind on any kind of worker rights compared to the rest of the world.

40 hours may feel like a lot, but throughout most of human history only working 40 hours was a privilege available only to the nobility. It's possible to get the 40 hours reduced even further in the US, but it will probably once again require massive demonstrations, and it seems unlikely that it will happen without violence and death.

I wish we did though

But think of the shareholders, what happens if line doesn't go up

IIRC that number was debunked.

Work load used to be significantly less in the medieval ages.

And even less in hunting/gathering times (probably). All the ethnographies we have of (formerly) extant hunter/gatherers show them basically not even working a part-time job. The !Kung-san of southern Africa were recorded as putting in an average of 17 hours a week of food-related work - and this was in a much sparser environment than what our ancient ancestors existed in.

Americans count their lunch breaks as hours worked. The typical "office worker" schedule is 09:00 to 17:00 Monday to Friday with a one hour lunch break from 12:00 to 13:00. This is 8 hours a day or 40 hours a week, but if you are not counting lunch breaks then it is 35 hours a week of actual "work".

Or this comment is made by a European who wants to just diss Americans without realising this situation is largely the same in both places... 😇

Edit: Since there appears to be some confusion here, if a worker had a working schedule of 09:00 to 17:00 Monday to Friday with a one hour lunch break from 12:00 to 13:00, and you asked a European and an American how many hours a week this person works, the American would say 40 but the European would say 35.