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[-] irq0@infosec.pub 156 points 8 months ago

The idea came from a British guy called Robert Owen in the 19th century. It was a huge step forward in workers rights seeing as it was fairly normal for factories to work from sunrise to sunset to try and maximise their output.

Typical working hours were 10-18 hrs a day 6 to 7 days a week

I'm not saying I love working 8hrs a day and modern society can definitely do better but this was a positive step forward in history and should be celebrated... celebrated isn't quite the right word but I hope you get what I mean

[-] kakes@sh.itjust.works 122 points 8 months ago

Yeah, anyone calling the creator of the 40-hour work week "Satan" is obviously ignorant of the history of labour.

As you said, we can definitely do better, but at the time it was (quite literally) revolutionary.

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 8 months ago

Yup, we need to get 6 hour 4 days a week now, so people in 2100 can call us satanic for wasting so many hours working.

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