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Man... do they not teach this history anymore?

Samurai_Man posted...

You guys gotta be trolling lol, nothing would hardly get done in 20 hours. That's part-time. And would come with part-time pay lol

As was pointed out already, in the early 1800's (the industrial revolution) the typical work week was 80-100 hours in a factory. It took decades of pushing for better working conditions before laws starting passing to reduce the work week hours. And even then, only a few states passed laws. The 40 hour work week didn't become federal law until after Henry Ford started pushing for it.

We can definitely push for better working conditions again. The idea is that we work less hours, but get the same pay, or higher. Because there's a lot of jobs that don't really require 8 hours of work every single day. Like I work for the government and realistically, I only do 2-3 hours of work per day, just stretched out over 8 hours. Every now and then, things get busy and I actually do work for most of the day. But it's not enough that I really need 40 hours on the job.