• gandalf_der_12te@slrpnk.net
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    6 days ago

    the long work weeks we have today is because more work can be done.

    in medieval age, you had to sow, half a year later you had to reap, and in between maybe idk milk the cows, though that takes a few minutes a day, not much longer. so they couldn’t work more, because it simply wouldn’t have made sense. That’s why they didn’t work more, not because they didn’t need to.

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      We CAN work more, we do not NEED to work more. We already overproduce everything. What you want is growth for the sake of growth, which is a self-destructive economic philosophy. We could easily drop to a 4 hour work day and still meet demand.