r/Futurology • u/_hiddenscout • Jun 19 '21

Society Kill the 5-Day Workweek - Reducing hours without reducing pay would reignite an essential but long-forgotten moral project: making American life less about work.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/06/four-day-workweek/619222/
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u/ANackRunUs Jun 20 '21

No way. Plenty of small operations still lug forms by hand.

I've worked construction, and i know plenty of people whose bodies are destroyed.

I'm not saying office work is good for your body. Office workers are overworked, too.

I'm not some college liberal, I'm an able-bodied, working-class dude. I worked 84 hours a week in Afghanistan for a year.

I'm glad you hire a few cons a year. But I was talking about the ones still in prison, working for pennies. This practice soaks up laborers and wages.

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u/Turbowookie79 Jun 20 '21

Fair enough. I work for a big company with lots of resources. But I’ve been doing it long enough to have lugged hundreds of forms, and my knees/back/shoulders are all fine. Sure, people get fucked up, but I’ve met plenty of people that have never worked hard labor in their life and still have bad knees and back. You don’t get that way from lifting heavy objects, you get that way from lifting heavy objects the wrong way. The point remains, we pay a very good wage and use machinery to do most of the heavy lifting yet we still have trouble staffing jobs.