• DigDoug@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    When the 40 hour work week was brought in, working men were expected to have a wife at home to do all the household labour.

    “8 hours for what we will” gets eroded pretty quickly now that both of you are expected to work.

        • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip
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          6 days ago

          And lunch used to be included in the 8 hours of work. And paid. Now it’s an unpaid hour you can’t really use.

          Wholesale theft.

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          No small kids, I take it? Take away about 5–7h every day from the “what you will” pool. And/or rest pool.

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          5 days ago

          Ah, well, I’ve been self-employed working from home since 2005, so I get up anywhere between 7:00am-9:30am depending on how bright it is outside

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 days ago

      Yeah how the fuck am I supposed to get 8 full hours of Rimworld without someone here to cook me chicken tenders?