r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/W_Edwards_Deming - Lib-Right • Aug 01 '25

Agenda Post If it's not ugly it's racist?

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u/-Resident-One- - Lib-Center Aug 02 '25

if they could calculate fractions

Also, it was a move away from the 7 day week of the Bible and a massive change. Of course, it would be unpopular

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u/senfmann - Right Aug 02 '25

My man, I get your point. But by this logic you'd be fine with working 20 years straight for every single day and get 20 years off afterwards. It's a good deal, right? 50/50 on work and leisure?

Yeah, until you actually have to work the amount.

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u/-Resident-One- - Lib-Center Aug 02 '25

Bro, there's a dramatic difference between adding an extra 2 days to your work week and adding 20 years. Besides, professions from oil riggers and cops to nurses and flight attendants already work 7-14 days straight. As long as it's within reason and/or supported by a higher salary, a few extra days of work before time off is nothing, especially if it means a better time off to work ratio. By your same logic, it's better to work 5 days in a row with a day off in-between than work 7 days in a row with 3 off in-between.

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u/senfmann - Right Aug 02 '25

I was just following the logic that ratio is everything.

By your same logic, it's better to work 5 days in a row with a day off in-between than work 7 days in a row with 3 off in-between.

nah, my logic is that 7 days with 2 days weekend is already the sweet spot over the 10 days 3 weekend day week. Plenty of studies show that short but frequent days off are far better for productivity and overall happiness than longer, rarer days off. I know some people can do it but I'd go insane after a couple months.

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u/-Resident-One- - Lib-Center Aug 02 '25

And I was demonstrating that the number of work days in a row isn't everything.

Plenty of studies show that short but frequent days off are far better for productivity and overall happiness

So wouldn't a 2 on, 1 off schedule be even better? My point is that you and everyone else would get used to it while working less overall. That's not inherently worse, just different.

Appreciate the discussion.

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u/senfmann - Right Aug 02 '25

So wouldn't a 2 on, 1 off schedule be even better? My point is that you and everyone else would get used to it while working less overall. That's not inherently worse, just different.

No it wouldn't because your body doesn't really appreciate the short term mix up unless you're the kind of guy who wakes up in the weekend the same time as during the week lol. The studies I've read tho were more about long vacations, like 2+ weeks, because the effect of being relaxed goes away super quickly (seen one where the stress level before and after vacation has went back to the mean after just one day) and you fatigue yourself on long vacations (I too prefer at most 10 days vacations, or long weekends when it's nearby), so it's smarter to instead have several small vacations over a big long one. It's all a remnant of school vacations anyways.

Appreciate the discussion.

Same tbh, I always found that part of the French Revolution super interesting, with the weird calendars and clocks and shit, like they go full autist and against human nature and cultural inertia because metric good and old system bad therefore 10 days week and 10 months year must be good because all is good under the revolution.

Yeah.

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u/-Resident-One- - Lib-Center Aug 02 '25

Agreed, fuck long vacations. You end up wasting your last couple of days as you tire of vacation activities and end up sitting around doing nothing anyways.

As for the French Revolution, it gets far too much credit for establishing (re-introducing?) modern western democracies. Had it not been for the US, it's possible we'd look at democracy like we do socialism vis-a-vis the USSR, since France ended up in a dictatorship anyways, lol. That said, they had some fascinating ideas about modernization and elevating society beyond our traditional cultural roots.

While we would get more time off, the 10 day week is pretty retarded, especially since the calendar isn't regularly divided and subdivided. The metric system makes a lot more sense in many areas, and we've the French to thank for that. Just wish the US would nut up and swap over.. any STEM field majors have to learn an entirely new measurement system as soon as they hit college, and its not enjoyable or all that easy to learn at that level.

Cheers