• SCB@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    And also be literally unable to leave where we’re born, have no rights to self-governance, be poor as fuck and eat mostly vegetable soup, and, oh I’d be dead, because there’s no medicine

    We lived in a vastly better world than peasants did, and that world requires a lot of people working in concert to maintain.

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      1 year ago

      It does not, however, require us to work for 40 hours per week. We work way too much.

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              Seems to work fine for practically all of europe where we have mandatory paid time off. And some countries like france with standard work weeks less than 40 hours.

              In a perfectly equal system with perfect division of labor efforts, we could most likely keep our standards of living and all work less than 2000 hours per year. As it is that’s not the case and we’re practically reliant on worker exploitation in asia, africa and south america to maintain said standard where I’m assuming a lot of people work more. But that’s not inherently because of their job, it’s because their employer isn’t willing to pay them more and hire more people to lessen individual workload.