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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.

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Zoey’s the glue of the family #KPOPDEMONHUNTERS #polytrix

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@g_lantressor @SirBeantwt Thats cope, chuds dont give a shit about nuance, these people compare the sales of 1 person indie games to multi-million budget time sinks with taco bell collabs. Or, they'll cheer for games like Ghost Yotei to fail and say jack shit when they swim in awards and cash.

@SirBeantwt Shouldn't be a shock, really. You might be a little young to remember, but Gamergate chuds will list many a story with good representation among their favourites of all time; they simply didn't want proselytising garbage shoehorned into everything. They won, nuance is winning.

Hans being a real romance option thats treated seriously and with care in a medieval set game created by a gamer gate weirdo is absolutely insane

I AM GIVING AWAY 20 KEYS for Morbid Metal, the hack-and-slash roguelite that's been developed for the last 10 years Sick combos, swap between characters, and some heavy metal bosses Just Like, RT, and Reply if you want it. GOOD LUCK

You can legally shoot the cop in this instance. This isn’t adventurism. This is self defense.

Conversations that need to be had. “Straight black men are pussy when it comes to fighting oppression and that’s why there are wars against the gays”

This type of Hand fan 🤭

A worker in Ontario, California sets his company’s warehouse on fire and has a message for the CEO: “There goes your inventory. All you had to do was pay us enough to fucking live.” Expect to see more of this as people struggle to survive under our decaying capitalist system.

This indie dev is making the world’s first ballet-inspired action slasher. - One-of-a-kind ballet-based combat system - Rhythm-based combat that shapes the soundtrack - Fight Slavic gods & monsters It's called TSAREVNA: Age of Tales. Would you play this?

DNC attendee reactions to the names of dead Gazan children being read aloud outside the convention

oh good this one is relevant again i missed it last time

Never in my life would i have thought I’d be seeing Batman singing jazz music up on stage 😭😭 but I guess when you threaten to turn his girlfriend into some bacon that’ll make him do just about anything lol. Wonder Woman trolling him at the end made this episode 100x funnier 😭

I made a tik tok trend and have already posted it there. Silly guys can't do without fights #dmc #dmc5 #dante #vergil #nero

@AlexanderEyre4 @Qveen_Potato "So just to be clear. You think it's an inaccurate statement to say "human beings have 10 fingers"?" Holy Shit this is whole thread is an argument against democracy. I never said that, but its less accurate than "Most humans have 10 fingers." SEE?! Its not hard.

@SmuggPrincess @Qveen_Potato So just to be clear. You think it's an inaccurate statement to say "human beings have 10 fingers"? Or "dogs have 4 legs" Basically, all definitions and descriptions are unusable and unacceptable, because you can always find outliers among millions.

Oh ya?

@AlexanderEyre4 @Qveen_Potato STILL dodging the point. I never said or even implied that exceptions make a rule, but they DO undermine it. In fact, using your disingenuous example: theres companies that serve people who are born with extra fingers. uvex-safety.com/blog/gloves-fo…

@SmuggPrincess @Qveen_Potato I'm not dodging the point. It was suggested that exceptions undermine the rule as I pointed out that exceptions do not make the rule, so I gave an example that demonstrates how absurd that is, and if we held that standard you can basically undermine any rule.