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How do you know those other planets don't all have 80-100 hour weeks? Maybe aliens are all more like ants or bees and just work non-stop. The reason they never stop here or answer our calls is because they're always at work. π€·ββοΈ
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
Yea, but those 336 hour weekends though...
I wonder if ants and bees get flooded with endorphins when theyβre endlessly working so 80-100 hour weeks would be just fine for them. Weβre apes, weβre supposed to eat berries and weird mushrooms and procreate in the forest, weβre not designed to work any harder than we have to to do those two things.
Native to this planet and have to pay yo live here.
This is some bullshit.
At least the oxygen is free. For now.
For now dot tee emm
United States of America is not a planet.
There are countries with both more and less work hours.
If counted by European standards, the US has a 35-hour work week. Americans are counting their five one-hour lunch breaks to arrive at the "office worker" schedule of 40 hours a week, 09:00 to 17:00 Monday to Friday with a lunch break at 12:00 to 13:00
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Have you informed Kermit about this?
What do you think their comment is doing? π
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.
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People didn't end up with 40 hour work week, people fought to get it that low
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And remember, we only need to produce 30% of what we are producing for everyone to live comfortably.
All it would take is not being human.
But think of the shareholders, what happens if line doesn't go up
Workers shall unite again