I hate the term 9 to 5, know why?
Because who the fuck is getting a paid lunch these days? It’s like that quietly went away in the 2000’s and no one complained.
Also if everyone is 9 to 5, how does anyone do any errands if they close at the same time they do?
Not to mention schools release at like 2:30. Need your kid taken care of after that? It’ll be a few hundred $/mo for an after-school program. Sorry working parents.
A few hundred a month? I wish.
Well, personally I’ve found that to be a bit of a problem, so for some of us it is that we don’t, unless we take like half a day off.
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Technically I’m supposed to have 30 minutes unpaid lunch. However, no one really does. It gets paid. We just hit “no” on the time clock for the “uninterrupted 30 minutes lunch”.
I’ve never even been offered 9-5… It’s always been 8-5.
God yes me too. I didn’t even realize until I came out of university. A 9-5 job is a 9-5:30 job over here (we have a mandatory lunch break of at least 30 minutes if you work more than 6 hours a day, 45 if more than 9). Now calculate in the commute and if you’re lucky you’re at a 8:15-6:15 job.
We exist to consume ads for billionaires to be able to live all our lives for us concentrated into 1% of the population. It’s a heavy burden they must bear which is why they need all the money.
Y’know…I’m reading The Way We Never Were by Stephanie Coontz.
For much of humanity’s time in modern civilization, everyone worked. Constantly. From childhood to old age. The worst period was from industrialization to the labor movement. Literally worked to death. Probably one of the worst periods in human history with massive disparity and horrendous working conditions. The modern era is luxurious for many compared to what we used to have.
I appreciate the balanced perspective you brought to the table. Modern life is fantastic in so many ways. This post hits so close though because despite the reality most of us yearn for something more. Not wealth per say; freedom to work to live vs most seemingly living to work. The vast imbalance is horrible and most of us aren’t having the best time. Says a comfortable software engineer who is is doing… OK but seriously as a society we should have figured out some semblance of proper balance by now.
I think something like the idea of the consensus engine would greatly help us if it could be built. It’s not a magic bullet but it would provide so many avenues for not making things worse
I think the difference is that now more than ever we can see the ever increasing wealth disparity in our society. While most of us toil away we constantly see what the classes above us are able to do and get away with because of their insane amount of money.
You guys are exploring the world for 2 weeks? Lucky.
If you understand the way things are right now is broken, you should understand that you ALWAYS have a choice to stop being cynical, fight for your freedom and fight for what’s right.
I wasn’t ONLY talking about reddit in this post a while back. https://lemmy.world/post/858027
Choose to be creative. Choose to be sincere. Choose to be a human again.
Unfortunately I choose to eat
See, there is the cynical reddit one liner again.
You have made the choice to resign yourself to despair instead of fighting for your freedom from the reddit within. I can’t make that choice for you, none of us can, but I do hope that you will change your mind one day.
Look to be fair I am self employed and always have been, but even so, today I don’t feel like going to work at all, I am totally exhausted. I am going though - because if I don’t go, I won’t have stock for the end of the week and customers come from a fair distance to see me, and if I don’t have what they want they will be pissed, and my business will go to shit.
We are all prisoners of work.
We are all prisoners of the unfair system of this absurd world, but I’m hoping that one day, we will all be free.
I’m asking you to not give up on hope. It’s not too late yet, my friend.
Exploring the world for two whole weeks every year sounds awesome
Man it sure sucks to be American in this time.
Not if you were born to rich parents. Oops, I mean if you work really hard and quit buying Starbucks, damn millennials
Can’t disagree. When I talk with my European and Asian friends, sometimes they ask about America, and my answer is usually something like “The US is a great place to live, the best country in the world, if you’re rich!” and I think that’s factually true.
If I was rich there so many countries I’d rather live than the USA. New York would be cool, living in a penthouse. I would hate LA. Miami would be cool. But other than that? Literally dozens of cities around the world that I’d rather be in.
Japan has entered the chat.
Well, being Japanese sure sucked a lot more 80 years ago.
2 weeks only? should change the headlines to “americans were made”
This truly is the best of all possible worlds!
I’ll never understand the 9-5 thing. Even years ago, the people who didn’t have shitty hours worked like 8-4:30 or something. Most people don’t actually work 9-5.
The scary part is that this doesn’t even sound bad to me anymore.
False. Actually includes 7 hrs of shitposting at night.
We’ve spent the vast majority of our existence as a species living in small pre-agricultural bands in which it was virtually impossible to accumulate real personal property or wealth. Consequently, a person’s status was determined not by how much they owned, but rather by their merit and relationships with others.
Wheat is a relatively recent development in human history, as is agriculture in general. It changed everything but for better or worse, agriculture is a trap, and once you start transitioning to it, you can never go back.
naw I just wanted an excuse to show a jerma clip
Fair play.
Most people would unironically take that over the fresh hell post industrial capitalism has become.
Sometimes I tidy the house during the week so I can do nothing on the weekends! It’s a miraculous discovery that gives life meaning!
I dont clean up during the week and still do nothing on the weekends
This is the way.
