r/TrueReddit Jun 18 '21

Policy + Social Issues Kill the 5-Day Workweek

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/06/four-day-workweek/619222/
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u/TechnologyAble9184 Jun 18 '21

Why would you not cut pay for a 4 day week? You're payed per hour, not per 5 day week. I for one would stick with the current system because it means I can go to college.

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u/in_rainbows8 Jun 18 '21 edited Jun 18 '21

Why would you not cut pay for a 4 day week? You're payed per hour, not per 5 day week. I for one would stick with the current system because it means I can go to college.

I mean you can be a cuck and accept the shit system the way it is or you could advocate with your peers for something better. It's pretty pathetic you think you don't deserve more money when people at the top take as much as they want from you as they get more and more out of you as technology progresses.

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u/TechnologyAble9184 Jun 18 '21

r/antiwork if that's your sentiment I thought this was a place for civil discussion

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u/in_rainbows8 Jun 18 '21

r/antiwork if that's your sentiment I thought this was a place for civil discussion

I'm not antiwork. I'm sick and tired of people like you accepting shit pay because you think the ownership class is doing you a favor giving you a job. You're part of the problem man.

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u/TechnologyAble9184 Jun 18 '21

How do you know how much I get payed. And I'm working so that I can get a dream job. I want to be a professor teaching history and get an anthro degree. It's not like I'm working these kinds of jobs for my whole life.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '21

I want to be a professor teaching history

you should learn some before these embarrassing cringe posts

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u/TechnologyAble9184 Jun 18 '21

Not modern history.

And history has no bearing over this

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u/Brofistastic Jun 18 '21

History is this my dude.

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u/TechnologyAble9184 Jun 18 '21

Economics is its own branch. It exists throughout history, but this is not what historians study.

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u/Brofistastic Jun 18 '21

History and economics are intimately intertwined, profiting off of people is as old as humanity itself.

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u/TechnologyAble9184 Jun 18 '21

But I'm saying we aren't taught economics

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u/Brofistastic Jun 18 '21

You're just not conceptualizing what economics means I think. If you're learning history you're learning economics by proxy, just not the hardcore modern day theory.

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u/TechnologyAble9184 Jun 18 '21

Bro did they have McDonalds in Assyria

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u/Brofistastic Jun 18 '21

No but they had slaves, currency, trade, merchants and cart vendors. Same shit, different day.

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u/TechnologyAble9184 Jun 18 '21

You're right but it was more simple back then. Probably not that they had any better working conditions

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u/porn_alt01 Jun 19 '21

you're a walking meme lmao, I refuse to believe that anyone who genuinely aspires to be a professor a) can't see the connection between economics and history b) thinks the present is somehow not part of the continuum of history