They were fully prepared to turn the working populace into slave labor and then the government was shocked to see that descision was unpopular.
One thing that catches my eye about this article is that the Guardian specifies “young people” as the cause for the pushback, Gen Z and Millennials, as if everyone else would be perfectly fine working until they fucking die. Just more “Zoomers bad” rhetoric.
god the audacity of capitalists. Did they really think people were just going to accept having to work 10 hours per day every day of the week?
To the ‘democratically elected’ every policy must be what the people want.
Why not? We’ve swallowed every other bullshit they tossed our way