The 8-hour day was built for a world where one person worked and someone else ran the house.
That world is gone.
Now both people commute, both work, both raise the kids, and we still pretend 40 hours is the natural amount.
It isn't. It was a deal. The other half of the deal disappeared.
Why aren't the robots working in mines, oil fields, disaster zones, and toxic chemical plants?
Why aren't they cleaning up oceans full of plastic, inspecting dangerous infrastructure, or doing the jobs that shorten human lives and wreck human bodies?
Instead, they're writing emails, making PowerPoint presentations, generating marketing copy, and replacing creative work.
For decades, we imagined technology would free people from the most dangerous, dirty, and physically exhausting jobs. Somehow we ended up automating the things many people actually enjoy while leaving humans to handle some of the most hazardous work on Earth.
What exactly are we doing here?
@Blaze2Bulls Sie stellt uns nach, taucht an unseren neuen Adressen auf, macht uns dort bei unseren neuen Nachbarn schlecht, erzählt haarsträubende Lügen. Totale Psychophatin.
@Blaze2Bulls Wir haben bei einem Rentner Ehepaar gemietet. 1 Jahr später übernahm deren Tochter das Haus. Seitdem wohnte und trampelte sie dann über uns. Das Mobbing gegen uns wurde immer schlimmer. Als wir gekündigt haben während der Frist noch mehr Terror bis hin zum Hausfriedensbruch.
one of the saddest things about being alive right now is realizing how many enormous problems we’ve had the knowledge and resources to address for decades, yet somehow we keep choosing not to. we have poured unimaginable amounts of wealth into making already-rich people even richer while allowing poverty, hunger, climate problems and countless other crises to continue around us. it’s difficult not to wonder what the world could look like if we had spent even a fraction of that energy building something better for everyone.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but human beings weren’t meant to live like this… stressing over bills, job stability, rent, groceries, health insurance, and being one emergency away from broke.
Do you agree?
I’m pretty disappointed that I grew up believing bad people would face consequences for doing terrible things, only to become an adult and realize that bad people literally get away with everything. Sometimes, they even get rewarded for it.
It's really too bad because we could have built a world where we work a little bit but mostly just hang out and have a good time but instead we got this shithole
The 40-hour work week is outdated and was designed with the assumption that someone else was going to be always taking care of cooking, cleaning, and household errands. It wasn't designed for you to be doing it all, and if you're having a hard time, you're not a failure.
Why do we normalize being permanently exhausted? If half the population is running on caffeine, anxiety, and four hours of sleep, maybe the problem isn’t individuals. Maybe the system is the problem.
No animal on earth knows what a Monday is.
No plant. No ocean. No nervous system in nature. The week doesn’t exist. You’ve been exhausted by something that was never real.
Das ist eben der Haken wenn man Hilfebedürftigen gerade mal das verfassungsrechtliche Existenzminimum zugesteht. Man kann ihnen bei "ungewünschtem Verhalten" einfach nichts mehr wegnehmen. Muss man auch nicht: Schafft reale Perspektiven für jeden.
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Deutschland ist bei der Vermögensungleichheit wieder ungefähr dort, wo es vor 120 Jahren war. Das reichste 1 Prozent besitzt mindestens 35 Prozent des Vermögens. Die Vermögen der reichsten Deutschen stiegen von 2020 bis 2023 um 75 Prozent. Und dann erzählt man uns bei Rente, Pflege oder Sozialstaat: Der Kuchen sei leider nicht größer geworden. Vielleicht sollte man endlich fragen, wer sich in der Zwischenzeit immer größere Stücke davon genommen hat. https://t.co/sD9vHRu0Bh