9-5 is the modern evil

[LittleWolfie]

Totally agreed , but 9-5 is more beneficial to employers as they can squeeze as much work they want.

Then why are there employers offering 32 hour work week? Why are there employers offering four days a week? That may have been true, but there's mounting evidence that it's no longer in the employers best interest. Look at the rise of gig work, how annualised hours was booming, once computers were affordable. Did you know IBM sold a few mainframes for that to Europe?

With modern predicitive software and big data it should be even easier (l can look at google to find out when McDonald's is likely too be busy.

Wouldn't that be a good time to call extra staff in?

Why four day work weeks? The idea behind 8-6 four days, is that the time loading up and shutting down equipment is saved, so for the same number of hours work,production can be increased.

There's some great research on this and other productivity measures. Like batching. Sure it won't apply to everything, but there are employers moving that way.

I'm going to try avoiding a political discussion here but arguably yes.

 

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[shubham525]

Then why are there employers offering 32 hour work week? Why are there employers offering four days a week? That may have been true, but there's mounting evidence that it's no longer in the employers best interest. Look at the rise of gig work, how annualised hours was booming, once computers were affordable. Did you know IBM sold a few mainframes for that to Europe?

With modern predicitive software and big data it should be even easier (l can look at google to find out when McDonald's is likely too be busy.

Wouldn't that be a good time to call extra staff in?

Why four day work weeks? The idea behind 8-6 four days, is that the time loading up and shutting down equipment is saved, so for the same number of hours work,production can be increased.

There's some great research on this and other productivity measures. Like batching. Sure it won't apply to everything, but there are employers moving that way.

I'm going to try avoiding a political discussion here but arguably yes.

Yes ofcourse these methods are being used and part time work is on the rise.

But if look at the main stream work force , the 9-5 is still the trend as it is more beneficial to employers and they can squeeze the IT guys and labour for all the work.

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[Everyman]

Hey Guys,

I started reading and gathering quotes, but after so many I thought I would just share with you what I know. Maybe you could take something out of it.

I will comment on some parts but to summarise here.

If you want to know about 'what happened to us' in the past 150-200 years start reading Anthony Sutton and his "Wall Street" trilogy. He provided enough evidence that Ford was one of the Hitler's early backers. Then other 'capitalists' from the US joined (Rockefellers, RedShields, Morgans etc...). They are basically responsible for backing Germany and Bolshevik/Soviet Union and the genocide that happened. American industrialists backed Soviet 'Russia' (it didn't have much in common with Russia...) and supported genocide. They backed Hitler simultaneously.

Read Karl Marx manifesto. Sutton quotes it in his book but if you want it. It's all there, written in the mid XIX century (e.g. 'we should stop children working, we should force women to leave home and go to work, we should introduce mass public education and take children from their parents etc....).

You know about the Jeckyll Island conspiracy that created the FED...

I'm not arguing for or against his polices either, but it's interesting that we have totally different definitions of the same actions.

This is normal because the meaning of words need to be inverted and even contradictory. Read Orwell's 1984 or just the manifesto I quoted above. In the Orwell's book you have the Ministry of Love which deals with 'hate speech'.

Currently the US is the biggest warmonger on the planet and what do they have there? Is it Ministry of Aggression? or Invasion? Nope, it the United States Department of Defense that supervises aggression...

That depends entirely on your personal and political viewpoints.

Yet facts are facts. Sorry for picking on it but I can feel that water is not wet for whatever reason, but it is wet anyway. Or that the gravity doesn't exist but when I jump from a cliff I will be proved it's still there.

Capitalism has allowed good men, who through their perseverance have created means and ways for mankind to flourish. But just like anything, it also has been used by perverse and wicked men to create more needless pain and suffering. It is not the system per se, but the man.

Capitalism and all -isms are just names (btw capitalism is just another name for slavery/socialism or whatever is there). We are people and give the sense to each. You can just a gun to defend or attack.

You and I conceptualize and define socialism and capitalism differently. As such, we see through different lenses. What you point to as socialism, I point to as compassionate capitalism. Socialism to me is when the government controls under the umbrella of collectivism and no longer allows the individual to flourish. If Ford chose to be a benefactor of his fellow man and society at large, that is not socialism, at least not how I would define it.

It's interesting because Ford himself thrived and flourished from using a lot of 'freedom' and risks that went with the freedom (responsilibity). Yet he/or the likes implemented a 'social system' that is contradictory to what they did when they were poor and helped them become rich. I see that with e.g. Schwarzenegger who is delusional about what he did when he was young and what he now advertises sometimes ('break the rules, not the law' - pfffff - he has broken the law so many times, including the immigration law of the US)...........

What about if you found out Ford, was funding political parties who wanted to implement some form of collectivism? What if you found out he wanted to forcibly stop the then standard six day week, regardless of if workers or other employers liked it or not? Is that socialist now? Sure, you can say there is constraint, you cant't fire people at will, because you don't like their shirt although Norway has no minimum wage laws either, so there's less constraint that way. Even capitalist societies constrain people, that is why corporate law exists (Imagine, if there was no law against INSIDERS trading or corporate espionage or sabotage or shoplifting. Anti-shoplifting laws constrain individuals for the benefit of companies, while minimum wage laws constrain companies for the benefit of individuals. (I'm counting freelancers as companies there)

I wrote it above but will just repeat. Ford funded Hitler and aided Soviet Union. He directly financed genocide.

For example, minimum wage laws. They were originally enacted to prevent certain people from entering the job market, not to help create a wage floor. And who is to say that minimum wage laws actually provide value to society, since it has been shown that they may actually hurt low skilled laborers.

As I remember minimum wage was introduced to prevent children from working. And the lowest on the ladder. It directly hits the poorest, not helps them.

he put forth an argument that freedom is an illusion and always has been, and that the next best thing is self actualization and that the Soviet Union provided the best chance of that for the most people.

Soviet Union was the worst 'invention' of the richest people in the world. It was another system to keep poor people poor and the ruling class ruling as long as possible. Using terror.

a fundamentally capitalist forum

I would be delicate with calling this forum capitalist. But I get the point. I would say this forum promotes freedom which can be achieved by using certain tools and learning the rules...

 

[LittleWolfie]

This is normal because the meaning of words need to be inverted and even contradictory..

Yet facts are facts. Sorry for picking on it but I can feel that water is not wet for whatever reason, but it is wet anyway. Or that the gravity doesn't exist but when I jump from a cliff

When the meaning is shifted or inverted in one part of the anglospjere but not another that causes a lot of confusion online.

As to facts are facts, well yes they are. I was answering a question I don't see an apolitical factual answer too. You can travel by car or train obviously and those are facts. Which is better though, that's mich more subjective.

 

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[luniac]

Soviet Union was the worst 'invention' of the richest people in the world. It was another system to keep poor people poor and the ruling class ruling as long as possible. Using terror.
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if the Soviet Union was such a diabolical plot, why end it in 1990?

 

[Everyman]

if the Soviet Union was such a diabolical plot, why end it in 1990?

Who said it ended

The European Union (former European Union of Coal and Steel and 2 other 'unions') was established by communists.

The collapse of the Soviet Union was staged a bit. I come from Poland, but I read they did everywhere.

It was called a peace revolution. In Poland, it was called 'a round table talks'. There was a trade union called Solidarity and 1/4 of population joined in the peak time. So what they did was placed their agents on top (e.g. Lech Walesa aka Bolek, Nobel Prize winner lol), removed the leaders that didn't want to cooperate with the communist government controlled by Moscow and kept their influence.

Methods have changed. The communist came to a conclusion that communism is not able to support itself when the population is poor. It has to be implemented on rich population (e.g. European Union). It leads to the same thing in the long run. Look at demographics and population growth rate in 'Western Europe' but also Eastern. It's almost 0. Earlier it was terror, nowadays is 'welfare state'. Leads to the same thing.

Anyway.... 9-5...

 

[bringitnow28329]

actually as a 21yo male, sex for a 9-5 doesnt sound too bad....

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You're in luck. There's this profession called being a pornstar. It's questionable whether it's fastlane or slow lane but it sure seems like it would be better than sitting in an office for 40 hours a week.

 

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[bringitnow28329]

The problem with change is that all the older people now 50+ had to deal with this sh*t themselves and are now set in their ways. Many of the more successful slowlaners aren't doing the work anymore so they have no real need to change, even though there is really no reason why people need to be sitting in cubicles for 8 hours a day when work can now be finished in much less time for a lot of jobs. Then you just have employees sitting browsing the internet all day chained to their desk like modern day sales. What probably needs to happen is all the 50+ people retire and then younger people move in to their roles and hopefully they decide to implement a shorter work week but I doubt this happens until automation eliminates most jobs.

 

[luniac]

Who said it ended

The European Union (former European Union of Coal and Steel and 2 other 'unions') was established by communists.

The collapse of the Soviet Union was staged a bit. I come from Poland, but I read they did everywhere.

It was called a peace revolution. In Poland, it was called 'a round table talks'. There was a trade union called Solidarity and 1/4 of population joined in the peak time. So what they did was placed their agents on top (e.g. Lech Walesa aka Bolek, Nobel Prize winner lol), removed the leaders that didn't want to cooperate with the communist government controlled by Moscow and kept their influence.

Methods have changed. The communist came to a conclusion that communism is not able to support itself when the population is poor. It has to be implemented on rich population (e.g. European Union). It leads to the same thing in the long run. Look at demographics and population growth rate in 'Western Europe' but also Eastern. It's almost 0. Earlier it was terror, nowadays is 'welfare state'. Leads to the same thing.

Anyway.... 9-5...

deep rabbit hole there,

 

[Late Bloomer]

Unfollowing this thread because I thought it would be about alternative work schedules for the modern era, but it's actually about stating preconceived conclusions about the real meaning of economic and political theory. Maybe the title of the thread should be changed, to include a reference to Karl Marx?

 

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