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Your 40-hour work week was invented by a car salesman who needed you to have free time so you'd buy more stuff. Henry Ford cut his factories to 40 hours in 1926. He'd figured out that mass production doesn't work if your own workers are too broke and exhausted to be customers. Before Ford, factory jobs during the Industrial Revolution ran 10 to 16 hours a day, six days a week. Kids worked those same hours. Some manufacturing workers clocked 80 to 100 hours a week. The pushback started way before Ford. In 1817, a Welsh factory owner named Robert Owen came up with "eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest." Took 121 years for that to become actual law. And Ford didn't start this fight. Unions had been organizing for the eight-hour day since the 1860s. In 1919, over 4 million American workers walked off the job across 3,000 separate strikes. Ford was a billionaire who adopted what millions of workers had already demanded. The real legal win came in 1938 when FDR signed the Fair Labor Standards Act, the law that created minimum wage, overtime pay, and a cap on work hours. His Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins, was the first woman to ever hold a US cabinet job. She spent years battling courts and corporations to push it through. The law originally capped the week at 44 hours. By 1940 it dropped to 40. I went back and looked at what work was like before the Industrial Revolution, and it messed with my head. An Oxford historian named James Thorold Rogers found medieval workers averaged about eight hours a day. Economist Juliet Schor estimated English peasants after the Black Death (the plague that killed a third of Europe) worked about 150 days a year. Sundays off, plus dozens of religious holidays and festivals. Rogers wrote that workers in the 1890s pushing for the eight-hour day were "simply striving to recover what their ancestors worked four or five centuries ago." The factories didn't invent hard work. They killed the days off. The legal standard is still 40, but a 2024 Gallup survey found full-time American workers average 42.9 hours a week. Luxembourg, the most productive country per hour on earth, averages 29. In 2025, researchers at Boston College published the biggest four-day-week study ever in a top science journal. They followed 2,896 workers at 141 companies across six countries for six months, all working 32 hours at full pay. Workers slept better, felt less stressed. Over 90% of those companies kept the shorter week for good. A separate UK trial found revenue went up 1.4% and employees quitting dropped 57%. We've been doing 40 hours for 86 years based on a deal between unions and factory owners, signed by a Depression-era president, originally dreamed up by a man who sold cars. No doctor or sleep researcher ever signed off on that number. The best data we have says we could do with less.

And with that, Flat Earth is over.

Dünyaca ünlü İngiliz aktör Theo James, internetteki kadın düşmanlığı ve "incel" kültürünün yükselişi nedeniyle günümüzde bir erkek çocuk yetiştirmenin, kız çocuk yetiştirmekten daha korkutucu olduğunu söylüyor: "Bir erkek çocuk sahibi olmak dehşet verici çünkü insanlar bu tür fikirlere çok kolay kapılabiliyor. Bu durum aslında tamamen derinlere kök salmış bir öz güvensizlikle ilgili. Kendini ispatlama çabasına giren veya kadın düşmanlığı yapan erkeklerin asıl meselesi, özünde kendilerini yeterince iyi hissetmemeleri; ancak bu durum anlamsız bir kabadayılıkla gizleniyor. Erkeklerde, kimliği vücut üzerinden oluşturmaya dair bu toksik maskülenlik durumu var; daha büyük ve daha kaslı olmanız gerektiğine inanıyorsunuz. Gençler arasında giderek yaygınlaşan bir steroid ve performans artırıcı madde kullanımı salgını var. Bu sadece sinema ve televizyondan kaynaklanmıyor ama onlar da bunun bir parçası... Toksik maskülenliğin büyük bir kısmı belirsiz bir kimlik arayışına dayanıyor; kendilerini başıboş, bağlarından kopmuş ve değersizleştirilmiş hissediyorlar."

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